grain

At one point, the district switched from white to brown rice — a healthier whole grain.

Instead of selling at a loss, Mr Smith is filling his grain storage bins, in the hopes of better prices come spring.

Vintage equipment was used for a few scenes, but the majority of the movie was shot on 16mm film, which was then scanned to 4K in postproduction to remove some grain.

In the latter you can see how, in the 17th Century, the Dutch were using windmills not just to grind grain, but to do things like grind pigments to make paint or saw wood.

But running up the stalks there are small beads - these are the rice grains.