The US Agency for International Development (USAID) announced on Aug. 16 that it is contributing $68 million to the United Nations’ World Food Program (WFP) to purchase, ship and store up to 150,000 tonnes of Ukrainian wheat to help address the world food crisis.

The Idaho Wheat Commission conducts variety surveys in winter and spring to understand which varieties have been planted throughout the state.

Officials from Grain Craft visited Pendleton in the aftermath of the fire that ravaged the company’s flour mill two days earlier.

Troy Moore slowly and carefully adjusts both the rudders and the throttle on the tugboat Lincoln as he maneuvers into the lock at The Dalles Dam.

Last year’s drought has cast a long shadow on wheat exports from the Port of Portland, whose grain handling volume has fallen by 50% in 2022.

When engulfed in grain, a person has about two minutes to survive, an engineer and agricultural safety consultant says, calling it a “very gruesome death.”

The volume of freight and grain moving through the Snake River dams increases every year, and rumors to the contrary are wrong, members of a federal advisory committee say.