Trade Policy Opportunities and Competitive Prices Support U.S. Wheat Export Sales Early in the Marketing Year
By Claire Hutchins, USW Market Analyst USDA estimates the United States will export 25.9 million metric tons (MMT) of wheat in 2020/21, 2 percent behind last year’s pace if realized. However, two months into marketing year (MY) 2020/21, total U.S. wheat commercial sales are 8 percent ahead of last year’s pace at 9.62 MMT and […]
Meet the USW Technical Experts: Andrés Saturno – A Family Legacy of Milling Innovation
Name: Andrés Saturno Title: Technical Specialist Office: USW South American Regional Office, Santiago Providing Service to: Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru Though raised in Carialinda, Venezuela, located in the mountains of Naguanagua, U.S. Wheat Associates (USW) Technical Specialist Andrés Saturno and his two brothers grew up with Italian and Spanish influences from his parents and grandmother. Bread […]
Dependable People: A Spotlight on the Idaho Wheat Commission
For 40 years, U.S. wheat farmers have supported U.S. Wheat Associates’ (USW) efforts to work directly with buyers and promote their six classes of wheat. Their contributions to state wheat commissions, who in turn contribute a portion of those funds to USW, qualifies USW to apply for export market development funds managed by USDA’s Foreign […]
Wheat Export Market Development Goes Virtual – For Now
Despite the different roles or distances between us, all the people around the world in the story of U.S. Wheat Associates (USW) share an unspoken connection, not only through U.S. wheat, but also through our shared values of growth, hard work and family. Today, those connections may have been physically broken by concern for our […]
Dependable People: A Spotlight on Maryland Grain Producers Utilization Board
For 40 years, U.S. wheat farmers have supported U.S. Wheat Associates’ (USW) efforts to work directly with buyers and promote their six classes of wheat. Their contributions to state wheat commissions, who in turn contribute a portion of those funds to USW, qualifies USW to apply for export market development funds managed by USDA’s Foreign Agricultural Service. Currently, […]
Effects of 1980 Grain Embargo Echo Through the Years
By Vince Peterson, USW President As a new decade and a new future for wheat export market development dawned in January 1980, the urgency facing the wheat-producer boards of both Great Plains Wheat and Western Wheat Associates could not have been much greater. They were under the strain of discussions and negotiations for months in […]
A Legacy of Commitment – Evolution of a Public-Private Partnership
By Steve Mercer, USW Vice President of Communications Wheat farmers in post-World War II United States were producing more wheat than ever before. So, to improve marketing opportunities, they organized and reached out to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) for help. These visionary state wheat leaders ultimately formed two regional organizations to coordinate export […]
A Legacy of Commitment – Great Plains Wheat Focused on Improving Quality and HRW Markets
By Steve Mercer, USW Vice President of Communications Wheat farmers in post-World War II United States were producing more wheat than ever before. So, to improve marketing opportunities, they organized and reached out to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) for help. These visionary state wheat leaders ultimately formed two regional organizations to coordinate export […]
U.S. Wheat Farmers and Their Overseas Customers Share Unique Connections
Behind the world’s most reliable supply of wheat are the world’s most dependable people. Those people, from U.S. Wheat Associates staff to the state wheat commissions and U.S. wheat farm families to the many hands along the U.S. supply chain, represent an industry that is always changing. But many of the overseas customers USW works […]
Transitions for USW Colleagues
In the United States, the fourth Thursday in November is officially set aside as the country’s Thanksgiving holiday. As the holiday approaches, U.S. Wheat Associates (USW) wants to express its sincere thanks to several colleagues who are moving on to new life paths by the end of 2019. Three of our colleagues are retiring from […]