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Fig. 13. Average October price for soft white common wheat in Portland, OR, from 1907 to 2006. The cost of shipping wheat to Portland is deducted from the price farmers received for their wheat. In 2007, farmers paid $13.60 and $9.37 Mg–1 in Adams County, Washington, and Sherman County, Oregon, respectively, to transport their wheat to Portland (multiply by 0.027 to get the cost per bushel of wheat). Data are from USDA-NASS (2007), compiled by Sandy Macnab, Oregon State University Extension, Moro, OR.
