The Times - Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley

Better than expected bushel-per-acre yields are being reported for the US wheat harvest, as of this week. And harvest is very close to halfway completed in the US.

The USDA says the 18 states that represent nearly 90% of the wheat produced in this country are normally at 52% of harvest by this week each year. We are just a tad behind normal and the Pacific Northwest states, all three on the top-18 list, have yet to turn a header, although with the high temperatures of late, this will change very soon.

Harvest at the halfway mark gives the wheat futures mar- ket enough data to build in an assum...