Uncertain wheat boom in Palouse . ... Nelson — with about $1.4 million invested in farm equipment — is farming about 4,400 acres of wheat and more than 2,000 acres of other crops this summer.

Dryland wheat farming had begun in the southern regions as early as the 1860s, and by the 1890s, most of the grazing lands throughout the Palouse had been converted to crops.

It’s fall in the Palouse, when the sun burnishes the rolling landscape of Washington’s wheat country. But there’s a lot to the region besides farming. Here’s a scenic Palouse drive that ...

THE PALOUSE WHEAT LANDS; HEAT AND DROUGHT BUT AN IMMENSE YIELD. Share full article. Sept. 19, 1887. Credit... The New York Times Archives.

PALOUSE, Wash. — It's harvest time on the Palouse. Thousands of acres of wheat are being harvested from the Rolling Hills, and there is another yearly event happening in one of those fields; ...

FAQs about wheat farming . How many bags of wheat can 1-acre produce? One acre can produce more than 20-100 kg bags of grain. What is the average price of 1 kg of wheat in the USA?