Washington wheat

The Northwest, and the national agriculture community continues to look forward to an expanded USDA research facility in Pullman.  This joint effort between Washington State University and the ARS, will benefit a variety of local commodities, including wheat.  Wa...

National Association of Wheat Growers’ officers led their annual Washington D.C. fly-in to meet with Congressional members and their staffs to discuss their chief agricultural concerns.  The main topics of discussion included trade, the 2018 Farm Bill implementation, and many other topics.  The Wash...

The late winter snow and early spring rains have left many fields across the Northwest wet and extremely soft, to the point of delaying many producers from getting their spring wheat in the ground.  And for those growers to get crop insurance for the 2019 season, they must have their wheat in the ground by a variety of dates.  ...

Most, if not all, commodity groups were happy when President Trump signed the 201 Farm Bill into law just before Christmas.  But, perhaps one of the happiest, the Washington Association of Wheat Growers.   WAWG Executive Director Michelle Hennings said not only does the Farm Bill provide certainty when growers are facing so many questions in trade, competition, tariffs and more, but it has many im

The past couple of months have been very busy for the agriculture community on the federal level.  First Congress allowed the 2014 Farm Bill to elapse without passing a new Farm Bill.  Meaning the Ag community is now several days without a current Farm Bill.  Michell...

Dryland growers will have an opportunity to learn about the newest crop varieties an practices during WSU’s Lind Field Day Thursday morning.  The Lind Dryland Research Station, WSU and USDA researchers will share the latest information on winter and spring wheat breeding efforts, soil microbes, winter pea varieties, agronomy, markets and much more.   I...

According to Washington State University, there has been little change in the most recent stripe rust forecast.  The April 10th figures show active stripe rust was observed in breeding nurseries at Central Ferry in Garfield County, and rust monitoring plots in Walla Walla and the OSU Research Center in Hermiston.  Th...