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Farmers continue to plant more cover crops. According to Reuters those include everything from grasses like rye and oats to legumes and radishes. Some of them get converted to biofuels or fed to cattle, but most aren’t harvested because they’re more valuable when they break down in the soil. Rob My ...

According to NASS, all wheat stocks stored in the Pacific Northwest dropped 40% from September 1st, 2020. In Idaho stored wheat totaled 65.6 million bushels, down from 106 million bushels a year ago. Off-farm stocks were down 40%, while on-farm stocks were down 35% compared to the previous year ...

According to NASS, wheat production in the Northwest has taken a big hit from 2020 to this year. As of July 1st, winter wheat production in Idaho sits at 57.0 million bushels, down 4% from the June 1st forecast, and off 15% year over year ...

According to NASS, all wheat stocks stored in the Northwest decreased 29% from June 1st, 2020 to June 1st, 2021. In Idaho, stored wheat topped out at 18.7 million bushels at the start of last month, off from the 28.8 million bushels reported last year ...

According to the 2020 numbers released by NASS, all wheat stocks in storage across the Northwest were up 9% year over year. As of December 1st, 84.7 million bushels of wheat was being stored in Idaho, up from 77.9 million bushels a year earlier ...

Outgoing Senate Ag Committee Chair Pat Roberts and Ranking Member Debbie Stabenow applauded the House of Representatives passage of the U.S. Grain Standards Reauthorization Act of 2020. The legislation passed out of the Senate Ag Committee in June and the full Senate in November, and is now ready to be signed into law ...

According to NASS, 2020 wheat numbers, both spring and winter, are varied across the Northwest. Washington winter wheat production is forecast at 122 million bushels, unchanged from last month but up 3% year over year. Harvested area, at 1 ...

According to NASS, year over year winter wheat numbers dropped across the Northwest. According to the latest USDA figures, Washington winter wheat production is forecast at 122 million bushels, up 1% from last month and up 3% from last year ...

Wheat in storage across the Northwest reported an 8% year over year increase. According to NASS, wheat stored in all positions in Washington on March 1st hit 86.4 million bushels, down from the 92.3 million reported March 1st of last year ...

According to Perdue University, over the past decade grain bin entrapment has led to 370 deaths nationwide.  Because of that, Ag leaders and stakeholders are promoting Grain Bin Safety Week on farms and at commercial grain elevators.   "I signed a proclamation naming February 16th through the 22nd Grain Bin Safety Week," Ag Secretary Sonny Perdue recently announced.  "The pu... Read