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Serving Lincoln County for more than a century!
Amber waves of grain in fields located between Odessa and Moses Lake wait to be harvested. For other farmers, harvest has already begun, and the crop looks very good indeed.
The waves of grain have begun to fall to the combine-harvester’s sickle. The wheat harvest began last Monday with the first load of wheat hauled to the Ruff elevator of the Odessa Trading Co./Ritzville Warehouse. Mark Cronrath, grain manager at OTC, says the wheat coming in has been nice and dry, with tests showing a range of 10 down to 8.2 for moisture content. Dryland wheat, he said, has been running from the high 50s to the low 70s in terms of bushels to the acre. No irrigated wheat has as yet been cut.
Thus far there has been no evidence of stripe rust damage, Cronrath said. The fungal gro...
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