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According to NASS farmers across Idaho intend to plant a little more wheat and hay in the year ahead, but in response, producers plan on planting less barley, sugar beets and corn in 2022. The March 31st, NASS report also shows Idaho growers plan to reduce the amount of chickpeas and dry beans planted this year ...

Washington State University said stripe rust was discovered around the Mt. Vernon area earlier this month. The wheat stripe rust, discovered April 13th-14th, was up to 60% severity on susceptible varieties, while barley stripe rust was up to 40% severity in susceptible varieties ...

The International Grains Council is forecasting global wheat production will drop by one million tons in the 2022-2023 season. The crop is estimated to be 780 million tons, due in large part to a smaller crop in Ukraine, which will be 19.4 million tons compared to 33 million last year ...

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Day two of our Northwest Farm Credit Services Quarterly Commodity snapshot series, and we take a look at Hay and Wheat. Bill Perry, Vice President at NWFCS said they expect profitable returns for the local hay industry. “High input prices and irrigation water availability will provide headwinds to producers. High ...

The USDA's prospective plantings report shows a lot of things going on in the wheat world. In the case of winter wheat, just not really prospective plantings at all, since that crop has been in the ground since last fall. But until this last year winter wheat seedings have been declining pretty much every year for decades; down to record lows ...

The war in Ukraine is expected to expand wheat production in Argentina and Brazil, the primary wheat-producing nations in South America. Agriculture and consumer economics experts from the University of Illinois say both nations will likely already increase wheat planting this season, which begins in May ...

Friday’s USDA World Supply and Demand forecast is starting to show impacts from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Gary Crawford says one of the biggest crops impacted in the report was wheat. Crawford added corn prices went up 15 cents as well, and when it comes to soybeans, prices are up roughly $2.50 from las ...

According to NASS, wheat in storage across the Pacific Northwest dropped 41% from March 1st of last year to March 1st, 2022. All wheat stored in Idaho last month totaled 36.7 million bushels, down from 53.3 million bushels a year ago. Off-farm stocks were down 32%, while on-farm stocks were down 31% compared to the previous year ...

Dan Newhouse, chair of the Congressional Western Caucus, took to the House floor last week to call on the Biden Administration to do more to help producers. Newhouse noted farmers across the PNW work hard to feed to country and the world, adding many across the U ...