10.17.17 Ryan Higginbotham, director of Washington State University’s Variety Testing Program, looks back over the 2016/2017 wheat growing season from the perspective of someone who farms throughout Eastern Washington’s diverse precipitation zones in the first of a two part interview. Join Scott Yates, director of communications and producer relations for the Washington Grain Commission, as he talks with Higginbotham about the weather, private companies, the increasing number of program entries and other challenges in episode 43 of Wheat All About It! entitled, The Vagaries of Varieties.