Feb 08
USDA on Wednesday released its February Crop Production and World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) reports. Farm Director, KC Sheperd, caught up with Allendale’s Rich Nelson and talked about the numbers in this latest WASDE report. “For the most part, USDA gave us kind of what that trade was expecting here in today’s discussion,” …
Feb 06
March ’23 wheat futures ended the week little changed. CBOT soft red winter (SRW) futures were up 9 cents on the week, closing at $7.57/bu. KCBT hard red winter (HRW) futures were up 4 cents, at $8.73/bu. MGE hard red spring (HRS) futures were unchanged at $9.22/bu. CBOT corn futures were down 5 cents, at …
Feb 04
The U.S. Wheat Associates (USW) board of directors elected new officers for the organization’s 2023/24 (July to June) fiscal year at their meeting Feb. 3, 2023, in Washington, D.C. The board elected Jim Pellman of McClusky, N.D., as Secretary-Treasurer; Clark Hamilton of Ririe, Idaho, as Vice Chairman; Michael Peters of Okarche, Okla., as Chairman; and …
Jan 22
U.S. Wheat Associates (USW) is pleased to help share the positive stories about how U.S. farmers, ranchers and fisheries are producing excellent quality, delicious food for the world in highly sustainable ways. In fact, U.S. wheat farm families are featured in several video stories created by USDA and U.S. trade associations as part of a …
Jan 20
Reprinted with Permission from the University of Minnesota. Agriculture is seen as both a key cause of the global biodiversity crisis and a principal means of addressing it. Though some advocates are calling for farmers to return to heirloom varieties of crops as a way for the agriculture industry to address the growing challenges posed by …
Jan 13
Brett Carver, regents professor and wheat genetics chair in the Oklahoma State University Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, received the Eminent Faculty Award last month for his contributions to instruction and service. “As leader of the Wheat Improvement Team, Dr. Carver has unparalleled success in the development of plant variety cultivars with a record …
Dec 15
Wheat Letter shares just some of the ways USW has been working recently to build a preference for U.S. wheat in an ever more complex world wheat market. For example, USW Beijing participated in the USDA FAS “Discover U.S. Baking Ingredients and Trends” hybrid virtual promotion in August 2022. The purpose was to raise Chinese …
Nov 11
Thanksgiving in the United States is a time set aside as a national holiday the last Thursday of November each year.To celebrate the holiday, the U.S. Wheat Associates (USW) Headquarters and West Coast Offices will be closed Thursday, Nov. 24 and Friday, Nov. 25. In addition, the next Wheat Letter newsletter will be sent December 1 but …
