Wheat Crop

[Truck Shop]

Picture is taken across the road from our shop. Dry land soft white should run 115 bushel, it usually does.

Truck Shop

 

[Bumpsteer]

Damn......

Ed

 

[John C.]

That's beautiful! Are they going to be able to sell it after harvest?

 

[Truck Shop]

That's beautiful! Are they going to be able to sell it after harvest?

That's a very good question, 98% of the grain grown around here which is mostly soft white is export. Asia buys most all of it. So farmers around here are pretty nervous
and not to happy about the things on the national scale. They are not waving the red, white and blue right now. The morning cafe get together for coffee with the local farmers is fairly glum from what I understand.
I don't have time for that round table B.S..

Truck Shop

 

[John C.]

Last time I went to Spokane I saw the jumbo piles covered next to the elevators between Mosses Lake and Sprague.

 

[gruntscoreboard]

That harvest looks good!

 

[Queenslander]

You could send some over this way.
Following very poor winter and summer crops across most of the country, feed grain stocks are as dire as anyone has ever seen.
Planting for this years winter crop should be underway now, but only a tiny fraction of the area has received enough rainfall and the forecast doesn’t look good.
Grain is being imported from the UK, but with strict end user protocols in place to prevent weed/disease issues.
There are some grain stocks on the west coast, but it has to be shipped around to the east at a similar cost to the UK product.

 

[still learn'n]

Wheat around here didn't do well this year heard mostly 20-40 bpa

 

[old-iron-habit]

Listened to the farm report today. They said that the worlds wheat crop is so poor this year that the U.S. wheat should sell well to Asia as they have no where else to buy. While I certainly don't wish any hardships on our Aussie friends, I hope they are right.

 

[Mother Deuce]

Used to spend harvest back in the day helping out with harvest in the Horse Heavens. Saw some amazing yields some years.

 

[cubanator]

Horse Heavens by Benton City?

 

[td25c]

That's a very good question, 98% of the grain grown around here which is mostly soft white is export. Asia buys most all of it. So farmers around here are pretty nervous
and not to happy about the things on the national scale. They are not waving the red, white and blue right now. The morning cafe get together for coffee with the local farmers is fairly glum from what I understand.
I don't have time for that round table B.S..

Truck Shop

Way I look at it is if ya aint happy with something then stop doing it .

Can you imagine if the President called all the Farmers out & said " hey boy's … We running short on cash and need you fellers to pay back the last 5 years of subsidies the Red White & Blue been paying you ? "

That would sure shake the fellers up at the BS coffee round table . . LOL !

 

[RZucker]

Used to spend harvest back in the day helping out with harvest in the Horse Heavens. Saw some amazing yields some years.View attachment 182844

I have a good friend that has 6,000 acres up there between highway 221 and 395, the last few years haven't been too great up there. The driest place in the world that can still grow dryland wheat. 7" of rain annually is the average.
The are farms irrigated from the Columbia river up to a mile south of Sellards road now. I hauled a lot of grain out of that area in the early 80's.

 

[RZucker]

Horse Heavens by Benton City?

You in that area?

 

[cubanator]

Not to far from it...

 

[Mother Deuce]

Horse Heavens by Benton City?

Yes just up McBee grade to the top and hook a right on county well.

 

[Mother Deuce]

I have a good friend that has 6,000 acres up there between highway 221 and 395, the last few years haven't been too great up there. The driest place in the world that can still grow dryland wheat. 7" of rain annually is the average.
The are farms irrigated from the Columbia river up to a mile south of Sellards road now. I hauled a lot of grain out of that area in the early 80's.

I remember when the Mun/Mund? project started with the circles up there. Nobody really was taking it to seriously then. Sellards Rd really? Geez things really change. My friend sold about 6 years ago at 221 and County Well approx. Sure was a good time in my life.

 

[Mother Deuce]

Here is another 2 about the same time 75 or 6 somewhere in there. A Deere 6602 Hillside and the D6 when it was new. LOL they both look a little old now in light of 40 foot Gleaners and Challengers .

 

[cubanator]

Dad Grew up in Bentucky in the 60's. Foster family he lived with ran animals from land there over horse heavens to pastures in Paterson. Bordens (sp) was their last name I believe

 

[Mother Deuce]

Dad Grew up in Bentucky in the 60's. Foster family he lived with ran animals from land there over horse heavens to pastures in Paterson. Bordens (sp) was their last name I believe

Earl Borden is a dear friend of mine I have known him 45 years. The family place was right off 221 between Sellards and Anderson Rd. Long since sold.