8-2 IAN Grain Report
After the cold and rainy spring which may have left your memory bank, it might be interesting to find out how some of our crops are doing.
I don’t know if you remember, but at least a month and a half ago we have a lot of wheat farmers agonizing over the fact that they couldn’t get into their fields because of wet and muddy conditions. With near record heat, obviously things have changed so in an effort to figure this all out I turned to the USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Survey spokesperson, Vince Matthews and here’s what he had to say: “The crop progress report came out today and with conditions as of Sunday, July 24 and what we see is that harvest has begun for cereal crops, it has just begun for the winter wheat harvest starting in the Southwest, just 2% of the winter wheat has been harvested. The other thing that is notable is that the 1st cutting of alfalfa is just about complete and a 3rd of the 2nd cutting of alfalfa is completed as of this date. We continue to survey farmers for yield and we will be doing another one that will show the conditions as of August 1 and those numbers will come out on August 11. North Idaho cereal grain production is still behind average due to poor spring conditions.
