Kirk Sigler
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510 appearances
72 recordings
2 series
first heard Jul 2025
last heard 9 Sep
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Department of Agriculture's annual spring planting report, based on surveys with farmers, reveals what many had expected.
More farmers are switching to soybeans over corn and wheat, which require more fertilizer.
These are still estimates, but the USDA predicts this could be the smallest American spring wheat crop since 1919.
The soybean crop is up by 4 percent over last year, but that comes with its own risk.
China did resume buying soybeans from the Midwest late last year, but in amounts much smaller than before Trump's latest trade war.
Kirk Sigler, NPR News, Boise.
Good morning.
Glad to be here.
Well, it was really the winter that wasn't.
For skiers, we call it low tide.
There's barely any snow.
And when we did get storms, they tended to be really warm.
So rain at very high altitudes, not good for skiing, Aisha, but more to the point of why you guys called me up.
It's horrible for the snowpack and storing water in this region.
Exactly.
You know, we rely on a healthy snowpack to slowly melt into our huge reservoirs where it's stored to get us through the dry summers.
It's a good question.
I mean, you look at photos of the mountains around Lake Tahoe right now, and it's kind of like back to where they were right around Christmas, brown hillsides.
Here in Boise, I'm looking at the mountains behind the studio here, and they don't look much better.
The local ski area, Bogus Basin, is closing.
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