spring wheat

As growers nationwide start to wind down spring wheat harvest, the USDA is out with a look at this year’s crop.  USDA meteorologist Brad Rippey said as of Sunday August 25th, 51% of the crop has been cut, which is just slightly behind the five-year average for 53% for this time of year; but ahead of last year’s 50%.  As far as individua...

Wheat harvest continues across the Northwest, but when it comes to national numbers, growers are in the home stretch.  USDA meteorologist, Brad Rippey said as of Monday August 18th, 96% of the winter wheat acreage nationwide has been cut.   “...

Based on August 1st numbers provided by NASS, winter wheat in Idaho is forecast at 59.5 million bushels, up 1% from the July 1st and up 6% year-over-year.  Harvested area, at 700,000 acres, is up 10,000 acres from the previous forecast and up 70,000 acres from 2023. Yie...

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According to the latest numbers from Washington State University, stripe rust is forecasted to be in the moderate epidemic level in the eastern Pacific Northwest, which means 20-40% yield loss in the 2023 growing season.  Those estimates come from predication models using the weather data from November 2022 to February 2023.   ...

The USDA is out with it’s latest world wheat outlook, and Russia and Australia made most of the noise.   “Australia's production we raised that 1.4 million tons to 38 million tons the current forecast would be the third consecutive record large crop in Australia.  With Russia th...

"Presently, we do have drought in all three of the nation's major where we production areas.  The white winter wheat in the Northwest the hard red winter wheat across the Great Plains and the soft red winter wheat it's grown from the mid-South into the lower Midwest.” ...

When it comes to harvest numbers for both spring wheat and barley, nationwide, both crops are 94% harvested, according to the USDA.  Those figures are very close to the five-year average or this time of year; 94% for spring wheat, and 96% harvested at this point for barley.  However...

The hot, dry weather we’ve seen across much of the western United States has been “ideal” for spring wheat harvest, that according to USDA meteorologist Brad Rippey.  Harvest numbers, he noted, made a big jump this week, increasing 21% to 71% of the overall crop being cut to this point.   “Even with th...

The staff at the University of Idaho’s Wheat Quality Lab said when analyzing flour samples produced from experimental cereal cultivars, they will generate more consistent test results in less time.  In November the University of Idaho and the state Wheat Commission split the $59,000 cost of a computerized near infrared spectrometer for the lab, based at U of I’s Aberdeen Research and Extension Cen