Winter wheat

Winter wheat

David Sparks Ph.D.
David Sparks Ph.D.
I could call this report this year’s wheat woes given that the war in Ukraine has almost completely shut off grains coming from that part of the world. There’s a wheat crisis brewing in India and the midwestern U.S. is also feeling the effects of extreme drought. But let’s talk good wheat news and we turn can turn to the PNW. Dennis Koong Deputy Director USDA NASS NW Regional Field Office says the winter wheat crop up there is thriving.

"Yields are up quite a bit from last year. So in relation to last year, a lot better. So the yield as of the June one conditions, we're estimating Idaho’s winter wheat yield at 94 bushels per acre and that is compared to 71 bushels per acre in 2021. So that's quite an increase. It is. Speaker1: Indeed. To what do you attribute the success? Is it the fact that we've had a lot more precipitation, precipitation? Speaker2: Yes, there's been more moisture and 2021 was a really poor year in terms of moisture. I think if you look at 2020, our yield in 2020 was 101 bushels per acre. So if you look at, say, the last four or five, six years, the one that really stands out more is 2021 being on the low side. But 2020 was the highest yield in quite some time, I believe." Speaker1: Well, Dennis, if you believe it, then I believe it. It must be.

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