The Columbia Snake River System is a keystone of the Pacific Northwest agricultural economy, an advocate for river users says. An average of 51 million tons of cargo moves through the lower Columbia River each year. About two-thirds of those exports are grain, and about 8.5 million tons of cargo are barged through the inland system of locks and dams, said Heather Stebbings, executive director of Pacific Northwest Waterways Association. The system is the No. 1 wheat export gateway in the U.S., No. 2 in the nation for corn and soybean exports and No. 3 in the world for grain exports, she said.

Hydropower is an important source of reliable and clean energy for everyone in the Northwest, especially Idahoans. However, with the recent debate surrounding the Snake River dams concentrated on the benefits for and support in Washington state, we want to emphasize just how significant an effect these dams have on Idaho and why we must continue to protect them.

Building a kernel photo library with new and updated images from each of the six classes of U.S. wheat requires the single steady hand of a skilled photographer. And hundreds of hands of support from everyone else. The wheat kernel photo library project, which U.S. Wheat Associates (USW) began planning earlier this year, took a major leap forward in June, when the Department of Plant Sciences at North Dakota State University hosted a photo crew from Middle, USW’s creative agency in Manhattan, Kansas.

As a consequence of the different variables that affect the inputs for making bread in the country, Bogotá is one of the cities where the price of this food has increased prudently in recent months, costing between 400 and 600 pesos in the city's bakeries. However, in the south of the country's capital there is still a place that stands out for keeping the cost of bread even below 200 pesos....These topics were some of those that were analyzed during the 'Logistics and Freight Seminar', organized by the US Wheat Associates, the United States wheat export market development organization.

US Wheat Associates Board Chairman, Michael Peters says they continue to work on building export markets for wheat. He points out one of the biggest challenges has been Russia. "Russia has still been shipping out, you know, a lot of wheat over this past year when they've shipped it out at a lot cheaper price than what we're able to grow and produce it here in the US. So that has created some issues for us, you know, with our overseas customers.

The end of the Ukraine grain export deal and an unfavorable U.S. weather outlook sent Chicago-traded wheat and corn futures soaring on Wednesday, causing pain for speculators holding short positions. Most-active December corn gained 9.3% in the latest two sessions, the 2023 contract’s biggest-ever two-day jump and most-active corn’s biggest two-day rise since March 1, 2022. Tuesday’s corn strength seemed largely focused on a hotter, drier U.S. forecast instead of the failed Ukraine grain deal, especially with less decisive early-week trade in wheat.

Pacific Northwest wheat farmers expect "slightly below-average" yields as harvest gets underway, industry leaders say. Wheat stands were strong heading into the summer, but conditions have been hot and dry over the past month, said Amanda Hoey, Oregon Wheat CEO. "That will mean that some wheat producers fare fine, and others have a challenging year in relation to individual yields," Hoey said. "We are not expecting to see anything like the big challenges we saw in 2021, though, which had severely reduced yields for the state."