you see, that grain never even left roscoe filburn's farm. he used it on his farm to feed his family, to feed his livestock, and he used the remainder, held onto the remainder of it to use as seed for a subsequent planting season. so in a very real sense that wheat was not part of interstate commerce at all. nevertheless the supreme court of the united states lacking nothing in imagination said that even that wheat was within congress' almighty grasp within the all-knowing, wise reach of the federal sovereign. what the court said was that the wheat grown by roscoe filburn in excess of the grain production quota was itself something that when viewed in the aggregate could substantially affect interstate commerce. in other words, if lots of farmers everywhere just like roscoe filburn grew too much wheat, even if their wheat never entered interstate commerce, the growing of all that excess wheat would inevitably have an impact on the supply and the demand and ultimately the price and the availability of wheat on the interstate market. therefore,