Wheat harvest time has arrived, and farmers across much of the Pacific Northwest are beginning to get their equipment into the fields.
The first field was harvested in the Lewiston, Idaho, area on July 11, said Blaine Jacobson, executive director of the Idaho Wheat Commission.
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