BROADVIEW—The combine roared to life as Michelle Jones drove head-on into a golden sea of Montana winter wheat, the machine’s sharp teeth taking a first of a million bites from 1,500-acres that will ...

-- The rain in June and July came too late: Montana farmers expect the smallest wheat harvest in 13 years. And winter wheat production -- at 19 million bushels and down 57 percent from last year -- ...

This year’s harvest is more small winnings scratch-ticket lottery than high stakes Texas Hold’em. Statewide, the crop yield is way up from the previous two drought challenged years, but wheat exports, ...