Storing Wheat

At the Big D Ranch outside of Meridian, we had a chance to talk with wheat grower and broker Richard Durrant. "I think for our area, yields are average to above average. We are not seeing any excellent yields but as far as grain looking good, test weights, good," said Durrant. 

With high yields comes a problem, where to put the mountains of wheat:

 "All areas of wheat production has been good. So everyone is going to be pushed for the storage of the market. We have to store the crop before we get it to market," added Durrant. National Ag Stats says spring wheat production is forecast at 41.8 million bushels, up 7% because of a big increase in planted acres this year.

USDA predicts Idaho will have the nation's highest yields for both fall and spring wheat.