Key Market Movers: Trade, Currency, and Weather Prompt a Rally
It is no surprise that U.S. trade policy has dominated global news, and potential tariffs have introduced uncertainty into international trade. While the direct effects of tariffs on trade are widely understood, the anticipation of such measures has influenced commodity markets. Concurrently, wheat markets experienced upward pressure, driven by a combination of factors including weather-related […]
A Legacy of Commitment – Great Plains Wheat Focused on Improving Quality and HRW Markets
As we did in 2020 to mark our 40th anniversary, in 2025, 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 […]
Video: The Story of the Reliable System that Transports Wheat from the U.S. Plains to Customers Around the World
Kent Lorens and Derek Sawyer each consider themselves to be “mere links in the reliable wheat supply chain.” But without farmers like them, there is no chain. Thus, the two play major roles in a new U.S. Wheat Associates (USW) video project that tells the story of how a reliable system of trucks, trains and […]
November Precipitation Rapidly Improves U.S. Winter Wheat Condition
Wheat farm families across the United States are sharpening their pencils to figure out how to deal with the on-going challenges of high input costs and low crop prices. Fortunately, 2025 winter wheat crop conditions do not create another concern for many of them following a remarkable turnaround in November. Writing in Progressive Farmer Dec. […]
First Look: Larger Hard Red Winter Wheat Crop Offers More Consistent Quality
Continuous varietal improvement and improved growing conditions following a multiple year drought helped Central and Southern Plains farmers produce a more familiar, well-balanced hard red winter (HRW) wheat crop for 2024. A wider range of conditions in the Pacific Northwest (PNW) HRW crop encouraged higher yields with lower, but highly functional, protein levels. Both supplies […]
Producing the Story of the Reliable System that Transports Wheat from the U.S. Plains to Customers Around the World
Farmers at Heart of the Story The wheat was still green and had only recently headed when a film crew showed up on Derek Sawyer’s Kansas farm this spring. Weeks later, in summer, the same crew set cameras up on the edge of a golden Nebraska wheat field to capture harvest by Kent Lorens. Though […]
Video: USW, Oklahoma Wheat Industry Play Host to Trade Delegation from Brazil
Led by U.S. Wheat Associates (USW) Market Analyst Tyllor Ledford, a Brazilian trade delegation spent three days in Oklahoma to meet with exporters in the area who ship wheat from the largest inland port in the U.S. down to New Orleans for shipment out to customers in South America and other international markets. The team […]
Iraqi Prime Minister Receives U.S. Wheat Associates Delegation
Following is an April 17, 2024, announcement from the Iraqi Prime Minister Media Office. Photo above courtesy of the Media Office. Prime Minister Mohammed S. Al-Sudani met with Mr. Vince Peterson, President of the U.S. Wheat Associates (USW), and his accompanying delegation [April 17, 2024], in the Prime Minister’s residence in Washington D.C. They discussed […]
A Better Start for U.S. Hard Red Winter Wheat Conditions
With U.S. hard red winter (HRW) and hard white (HW) wheat moving into its crucial vegetative state, U.S. Wheat Associates (USW) and its state wheat commission member organizations have started weekly conference calls to share wheat condition reports. Overall, wheat in Central and Southern Plains entered 2024 in better condition than compared to the prior […]
Hamilton’s Visit to Angola Provides Look at Potential Market for U.S. Wheat
Exports to Angola are dominated by European Union (EU) and Russian wheat, but U.S. Wheat Associates (USW) Vice Chairman Clark Hamilton recently found evidence the emerging market holds good potential for wheat farmers back home. Hamilton was in Angola in late February as part of USDA’s first-ever U.S. agribusiness trade mission to Luanda, the capital […]
