The final numbers from this year’s harvest shows a strong year for local growers.
The data was recently released by the National Agricultural Statistics Service. Whitman County continues to lead the Northwest in wheat and barley production. Local Washington farmers produced nearly 32 million bushels of winter wheat this year with a yield of 86 bushels an acre countywide. That’s up about 60% from last year’s Whitman County winter wheat harvest.
Whitman County growers produced nearly 9 million bushels of spring wheat at 50 bushels an acre up about 70% from 2021.
Whitman County barley also led the Northwest producing nearly 3 million bushels at nearly 100 bushels an acre, more than doubling last year’s harvest.
Locally in Idaho Latah County farmers produced the 2nd largest winter wheat crop in the state at over 7 million bushels at nearly 90 bushels an acre. That’s nearly double the 2021 harvest.