June 2016

2016 harvest is here and it is once again quite early. Here in the Willamette Valley, turnips and crimson clover have been down for a week or more and now fawn, orchardgrass, and annual ryegrass are all being cut. If the weather holds, the combines will be gathering up those crops at full throttle. For Gulf ryegrass, it is none too soon, as the old crop Gulf has essentially been either shipped or spoken for. How has the early harvest affected yield and price? It’s too early to tell. In general, new crop price forecasts are fairly flat, especially for those crops that have carryover. The only other significant new crop pricing news is that OGSBA met resulting in an agreement to keep the same pricing structure for turf-type tall fescue with slight downward adjustments made to the perennial ryegrass grower price.