Associated Press: Intense drought conditions have shrunk the kernels and disrupted the proteins of winter wheat crops in Montana, Washington, Oregon and Idaho, the region that produces a fifth of the U.S. harvest.
The National Agricultural Statistics Service classified a large percentage of the region's winter wheat as below-average quality on Monday.
Farmers in the Northwest are nervous that the uncharacteristically low quality of their product could slash the crop's already declining prices.
"The problem...