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Andy Juris, a dryland wheat and alfalfa grower in Bickleton, in Klickitat County, knows precisely how much fertilizer to put on different areas of his farm.
The Tri-State Grain Growers Convention offered a crop insurance panel discussion Dec. 2 in Spokane. The drought this year meant an "unexpected swerve" for many farmers, who found themselves underinsured or discovered that their crop insurance program didn't work the way they thought, said Andy Juris, a Bickleton, Wash., wheat farmer and vice president of the.