Possible Clues:

• Pasta grain
• Crop beginning to wilt leading to barren area almost
• Grain on the back of old pennies
• Cereal for bread/pasta
• Shredded __
• Perhaps it's spelt differently, the way Yankee's written out
• Type of cereal
• A cereal, to be separated from chaff
• Cereal is what English tucked into
• Grass whose grain is used to make flour