It is always good to learn something, and it is time to know more about the Channel of Castille and its environment.
Walking along one of the branches of the channel we found this flour factory called "Las Luisas", an example of the many flour factories which thrived in Castile during the C20th, and are now mostly abandoned due to the business being less and less profitable, the rise on wheat prices or the lack of quality wheat suitable for the fabrication of bakery flour. This last factor is interesting, because not all kinds of wheat produce flour soft enough to be used in the bread we eat daily, and the best wheats tend to yield less tons per hectare than other varieties more suited to compound production. This, combined to the neccesity of farmers to produce more and more in order to reach the same earnings, has lead into sowing more productive wheat varieties (but with less quality) and the massive production of barley, tougher and easier to take care of.
