U.S. Wheat Associates Welcomes USDA Announcement of Additional Export Market Development Funding
U.S. Wheat Associates (USW) celebrated the announcement that the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Foreign Agricultural Service (USDA-FAS) has awarded the organization more than $3.57 million through the America First Trade Promotion Program (AFTPP) to help expand export markets for U.S. food and agricultural products. U.S. Wheat intends to leverage AFTPP funding to reposition U.S.-grown wheat […]
A Legacy of Commitment – Evolution of a Public-Private Partnership
As we did in 2020 to mark our 40th anniversary, in our 45th year U.S. Wheat Associates (USW) is remembering and celebrating the people who produce the wheat and their enduring partnerships with their state commissions, the USDA’s Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS), wheat buyers, and wheat food processors around the world. Wheat farmers in post-World War II […]
2024 Activities Helped Buyers Connect U.S. Wheat to Quality, Reliability
Top Photo: In November, Master Baker Didier Rosada conducted a USW baking seminar for milling companies in Cameroon, Cote d’Ivoire, Gambia, and Senegal. The seminar was part of USW’s work to promote greater use of U.S. hard red spring (HRS) and hard red winter (HRW) wheats in flour blends. U.S. Wheat Associates (USW) Bakery Technologist David […]
Wheat Industry News
News and Information from Around the World Wheat Industry Speaking of Wheat “It’s a million-dollar rain, and a lot of farmers could not be happier to see this. This could not be more perfect right now, to be able to give the wheat a drink for winter, to last it to spring, number two, give […]
Promoting U.S. Wheat Around the World
As U.S. Wheat Associates (USW) President Vince Peterson often says, at any given hour of the day there is someone, somewhere, talking about the quality, reliability and value of U.S. wheat. Wheat Letter is sharing some of the ways USW was working in the third quarter of marketing year 2023/24 to promote U.S. wheat in an ever more complex […]
Importance of Trade, Relationship-Building Discussed as Leaders Gather in Washington
Agricultural trade – including topics tied closely to the work of U.S. Wheat Associates (USW) – was a major focus during the 100th annual Ag Outlook Forum hosted Feb. 15-16 by USDA in Washington, D.C. A panel discussion titled, “100 Years of U.S. Ag Trade; A Century of Growth, Innovation, and Progress” was the highlight […]
Senate Ag Committee Leadership Urges More Support for Trade Promotion and Food Assistance
U.S. Senators Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich), Chairwoman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, and John Boozman (R-Ark), Ranking Member, have urged USDA to use its authorities under the Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) Charter Act to support opportunities for U.S. farmers. In a letter to the USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack, Stabenow and Boozman highlighted the need […]
A Legacy of Commitment – The USDA and U.S. Wheat Export Public-Private Partnership Today
In this article, originally published during U.S. Wheat Associates’ 40th anniversary in 2020, Wheat Letter describes the highly successful public-private partnership supporting U.S. wheat export market development that has endured since the 1950s. “The proper role of government…is that of partner with the farmer – never his master. By every possible means we must develop […]
Celebrating a Golden Anniversary of Wheat Promotion in South Korea
The U.S. Wheat Associates (USW) Seoul, South Korea, office commemorated its 50th year of service May 15, 2023, with honored guests from the flour milling, baking, and logistics industries, U.S. government officials, U.S. wheat farmer leaders and colleagues. Speakers during the event focused on the remarkable growth of the South Korean wheat foods supply system […]
USW Holds First South and Southeast Asian Marketing Conference Since 2012
U.S. Wheat Associates (USW) in cooperation with the USDA Foreign Agricultural Service welcomed close to 200 guests to a South and Southeast Asian Marketing Conference May 9 to 11 in Phuket, Thailand. This was the first such conference in that region since 2012 and comes at a challenging time for the milling and wheat foods […]