The Times - Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley

Ten Years Ago

August 4, 2005

Yields of fall-planted wheat are higher than expected, reports J.E. McCaw, manager of the local branch of Northwest Grain Growers. Small grains harvest in the Touchet Valley area is over half completed, he estimated. “Fall yields are coming in higher than expected,” McCaw said. “We’re hearing yields everywhere from 85 bushels per acre up to 105. Considering we’ve had six inches less rain this year since last year, that’s very good.”

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