Joe Anderson

Over the past year, we have been cruising around the state of Idaho and stopping at a Number of different farms and ranches to get to know a little bit about the men and women that are producing such valuable agricultural commodities for the state. So we've been trying to get to know our neighbors. Late last fall we caught up with wheat farmer Joe Anderson who is known by another name as he farms alongside his brother in the northern town of Genesee.

Joe Anderson, also known by some friends as Genesee Joe. And my brother and I are farming here down at Genesee. We're the fourth generation farming on this place that great Grandpa bought. It's an above average wheat crop, it looks like around here this year. Feeling pretty blessed. Just started harvest yesterday. Here we have a soft white winter wheat crop. This one's called Iliad is the variety, but pretty new genetics. The growing season started out with a lot of rain and the winter wheat crop was fine. We added a little extra fertilizer. We started seeing good spring growth. The spring crops around here were a little bit challenged. They were seeded probably 2 to 3 weeks later than optimum because of rain. But they're a crop, but they're closer to average than winter wheats around the Genesee area look to be above average. They may not be quite as good as 2020, which was a record, but there for the most part above average we haven't got any grades back. Just started hauling to town yesterday, but the test weight seems to be pretty good. We're able to get a good legal load on the semi. Speaker1: Good to meet you, Joe.