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Rainier cherries cling to the branch in the Ray French Orchard in Richland, Washington, on Monday.

A good crop: Northwest cherry harvest starts to roll with some favorable warm weather

(Runtime 3:26)The French family expects a crowd for cherries this warm week.Richland’s Ray French Orchard has been a you-pick since 1988. They market…

A mechanism that shuttles grain, called a leg, spires into the sky amid the bins at Northwest Grain Growers in Walla Walla. The leg carries grain dumped from trucks into receiving pits, up in buckets, sometimes well over 100 feet before the grain gets distributed to the many different grain bins and storage facilities (Credit: Anna King / Northwest News Network)

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Russian aggression on Ukrainian wheat exports causes U.S. wheat prices to jump

(Runtime 0:55)Jeff Leber of Umapine, Oregon, stands in the baking sun. He listens to the hiss of his grain getting sucked up into the bins, at the…

A field of wheat stands straight up and lovely just uphill from the Snake River outside of Windust, Washington – but tall standing wheat can also mean that the heads are not laden with heavy grain

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Light headed: Stressed Northwest wheat may yield disappointing harvest

Golden slopes full of soft, white wheat roll and dive down along the snakey, Snake River – just out of Windust in southeastern Washington.A farmer rolls a…