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As the economy reopens after the COVID-19 pandemic, the wheat industry is at a critical point, the new chairman of the Washington Grain Commission says. "A lot of our buyers,
SEATTLE — Mike Carstensen has seen prices for the wheat he grows on his Lincoln County farm rise from $8.16 in January to $9.26 per bushel, although the price fluctuates. It’s a nice bump, he said, but it’s not enough to make up for the one-third increase in costs from rising gasoline prices over the same period.
