HUSA April 20 2026 – Jesper Hansen

So we’re talking to Jesper Henson, Scobey Montana, what things look like today down there?

Well actually today we’re kind of cold, we were 17 degrees this morning and the snow is coming down right now kind of sideways a little windy too. So how are you fixed for moisture from coming out of the winter? We’re still pretty dry around here we could sure use a good rain.

How’s that we looking?

Well we don’t have any winter wheat around here and we’re fixing to, we’ll probably start seeding tomorrow, it’s supposed to warm up tomorrow, afternoon sometimes. So we’ll get going in the field, we already got one drilled and we’ll get another this afternoon.

That’s spring wheat?

Yeah we’ll start up spring wheat. Does any barley raised in your country? Very very little in the northeast corner here. So you’ve got some some pulse crops that go down there don’t you? Yeah on our farm here we’ll do chickpeas, yellow peas, lentils, we’ll do some soybeans and some flowers as well. Those the pulse crops historically they do okay for you? Yeah they they kind of been the ones that been the farm saver for the last few years and now this price this year their lower price but they’ll be okay.

So they are looking a little bit better than the cereal grains right?

Yeah I still think with the lower price on lentils this year we’re still bit off putting them in versus spring wheat. Just for Hanson from Scobie Montana with our co-host David Woodruff.