Latest Articles Advocacy All river matters By Trista Crossley Editor A big part of the annual Tri-State Grain Growers Convention is educational breakout sessions that aim to educate and inform growers. At this year’s event, one super-sized session focused on Marine Highway 84, or M-84, and included a panel of stakeholders representing the entire Columbia-Snake River System, from Astoria, Ore.,… Feature Sowing success By Trista Crossley Editor They say good things come in threes, and this year’s Tri-State Grain Growers Convention proved it with three days of education, honoring fellow growers, and hearing from ag leaders about the challenges and opportunities coming our way in 2025. More than 300 growers, industry stakeholders, and exhibitors from Idaho, Oregon,… Toolbox From grief to action By Trista Crossley Editor Darla Tyler-McSherry turned one of the worst moments of her family’s life into a life-saving mission to prevent other farm families from experiencing the same thing hers did. By 2016, Dick Tyler, Tyler-McSherry’s 82-year-old father, had worked on the family’s Montana wheat farm his entire life and was very proud… Education Breaking out the breakout sessions By Guest Author The breakout sessions at the 2024 Tri-State Grain Growers Convention ran the gamut from advice for successful lobbying to a global wheat market outlook to thinking critically about barley’s future. Here’s a recap of some of those sessions. Soft white projected to lead rise in U.S. exports The “Global Wheat… President's Perspective Meet our new president By Jeff Malone President, Washington Association of Wheat Growers Hello Wheat Life readers! I’m Jeff Malone, and it’s an honor to introduce myself as your new president of the Washington Association of Wheat Growers (WAWG). As a fifth-generation dryland wheat farmer in Douglas County, I’ve been blessed to work the same land my family has cultivated for over a… Bottom Line Importance of tax planning in low income years By Cade Weber CPA, Leffel, Otis & Warwick If you are reading this, you probably know as well as I do that the trend in commodity prices has not been favorable to farmers over the last year or two. Margins for producers have become razor thin, and annual budgets do not paint as pretty of a picture as… Policy Treaty agreement reached By Trista Crossley Editor After six years and 15 rounds of negotiation, the U.S. and Canada announced in July that they had reached an agreement in principle on modernizing the Columbia River Treaty. In August, the U.S. Department of State provided details on key elements of the modernized treaty during a public information session…. Feature Seasons of farming: Winter By Trista Crossley Editor As winter settles in, most farmers’ fields go quiet, but that doesn’t mean nothing is happening. In Eastern Washington’s Mediterranean climate, winter is when the region receives the majority of its precipitation, either as rain or, preferably, snow. Snow insulates crops from wind and excessively cold temperatures and allows soil… 1 2 3 … 35 Next » Your Wheat Life Gallery Latest Articles 2024December 2024 Meet our new president By Jeff Malone President, Washington Association of Wheat Growers 2024December 2024 Importance of tax planning in low income years By Cade Weber CPA, Leffel, Otis & Warwick 2024November 2024 It’s been a year! By Anthony Smith President, Washington Association of Wheat Growers Read More AboutAMMO, Carbon, Climate, Conservation, Convention, Crop Insurance, Dams, Economics, Farm Bill, General, Harvest, Inputs, Legal, Legislature, NAWG, Pesticides, Pests/Disease, Regulation, Research, Soil Health, Taxes, Trade, Transportation, USDA, Weather, Weeds
