After a two-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic, in-person wheat industry trade teams have resumed in the Pacific Northwest. Nearly a dozen teams are slated to tour the region this summer, including a team from the Middle East and North Africa and another team from Ecuador and Peru, both of which came to Idaho.

As harvest gets into full swing, we are interrupting this week's regular Idaho Wheat Report to share some important information with you about grain storage safety. Grain bin accidents are a leading cause of death and injury in the agricultural community each year. We want to keep Idaho farmers, their families, and employees safe. Please take a few minutes to listen to Carol Jones chat about grain bin safety.

Russia’s unprovoked invasions of Ukraine sent already bullish wheat futures prices soaring earlier this year.

Flour production in the second quarter of 2022 totaled a record 107.407 million cwts, up 4.087 million, or 4%, from 103.32 million a year ago, according to data issued Aug. 1 by the National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) of the US Department of Agriculture.

The US is poised to deliver a bumper spring wheat crop in the upcoming weeks, which if realized could help relieve global shortfalls caused by turmoil in the Black Sea.

An objective assessment of economic loss due to wireworm damage in Idaho wheat. Remote-sensing technologies can provide efficient analyses of crop stress and damage in large-scale farming.

Market analysts say the deals Ukraine and Russia signed with Turkey and the United Nations to export grain could push world wheat prices downward.