Harvest continues as winter wheat seeding begins in PNW
Farm and Ranch September 2, 2010 The planting of the 2011 winter wheat crop has begun in the Pacific Northwest. Weekly Crop Weather Bulletins from USDA report ground preparation in Oregon and in Washington at the start of this week ten percent of the winter wheat crop had been seeded. That compares to the five year average for now of three percent. Winter wheat harvesting in Oregon was about wrapped up. Washington is down to about its last 12 percent of the crop. Idaho’s winter wheat harvest was at 83 percent complete to start the week. USDA meteorologist Brad Rippey updates the national spring wheat harvest. Rippey: “The spring wheat harvest passing the two-thirds mark for the week ending August 29th, 69% complete. Just behind the five year average of 75 percent. Far ahead of last year‘s number of 36% at this time. And the range for the six major production states ranges from 31% harvest in Montana to 97% in Minnesota.” In the PNW the spring wheat harvest is about complete in Oregon, 68 percent done in Washington while at the start of this week Idaho’s spring wheat harvest was only just over one-third complete when normally two-thirds of the crop would have been cut. This year’s harvest samples of Pacific Northwest soft white wheat tested at the Wheat Marketing Center in Portland show a weighted average test weight of sixty pounds a bushel, low moisture content of 9.6 percent and low protein at 9.4 percent. I’m Bob Hoff and that’s the Northwest Farm and Ranch Report on Northwest Aginfo Net.
