Columbia Basin, Ephrata, WA | The price mentioned in the paper is lower than what I heard they were offering this spring, and I'm pretty sure some guys got a good bit more than that at the last minute when the processors realized they weren't going to get the acres as double crop.
I know of one guy that is scaling back on corn and putting in alfalfa. His take on it is when hay is being bought on the stump for the prices they're giving, it's not worth the expense and hassle to grow corn.
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Some of our corn makes the cover photo of the Capital Press... sort of
