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 […]
Meet the USW Technical Experts: Adrian Redondo – Inspired to Help by Hard Work and a Hero
Name: Adrian “Ady” Redondo Title: Technical Specialist Office: USW South Asian Regional Office, Manila Providing Service to: Republic of the Philippines and Korea Growing up on his grandparents’ small farm in the Philippines province of Batangas, U.S. Wheat Associates (USW) Technical Specialist Adrian “Ady” Redondo learned that hard work is a great motivator. “My father was away […]
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 […]
A Legacy of Commitment – Western Wheat Associates Develops Asian 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 for help. These visionary state wheat leaders ultimately formed two regional organizations to coordinate export market […]
Meet the USW Technical Experts: Dr. Ting Liu – Opening Doors in a Naturally Winning Way
Name: Ting Liu, Ph.D Title: Technical Specialist Office: USW China, Hong Kong Region, Beijing Office Providing Service to: People’s Republic of China Where and who we come from makes so much difference in each life. For Dr. Ting Liu, the skills she observed in her family as an only child in southeastern China’s Zhejiang province led directly […]
Meet the USW Technical Experts: Shin Hak “David” Oh – Expertise Fermented in Korean Food Culture
Name: Shin Hak “David” Oh Title: Food/Bakery Technologist Office: USW North Asia Region, Seoul Office Providing Service to: South Korea The roots of Shin Hak “David” Oh’s food technology career were literally and figuratively fermented in his childhood home in Seoul, South Korea. The Korean art of making “kimchi” fascinated Oh as a child. Everyone in the family […]
Renewing a Partnership of Affection and Action with Mexico’s Flour Millers
By Steve Mercer, USW Vice President of Communications When U.S. Wheat Associates (USW) was planning to hold its 2019 Mexico Wheat Trade Conference June 2 to 4, 2019, no one anticipated that the threat of new tariffs on Mexican imports would come just two days before the meeting started. “What we thought was an unfortunate […]
Meet the USW Technical Experts: Marcelo Mitre – A Love of Food and Technology that Bakes in Value and Loyalty
Name: Carlos Marcelo Mitre Dieste Title: Technical Specialist Office: USW Mexican, Central American and Caribbean Regional Office, Mexico City Providing Service to: Barbados, Belize, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Leeward-Windward Islands, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Suriname, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela Regional Profile: The combination of economic growth, consolidation, increasing urbanization, and a […]
Here Are 5 Things to Know About SRW Supply and Demand
By Steve Mercer, USW Vice President of Communications Grown in the eastern United States, soft red winter (SRW) wheat is a profitable choice for producing confectionary products like cookies (biscuits), crackers and cakes, and to blend its flour for baguettes and other bread products. U.S. Wheat Associates (USW) wants to share some key points about […]
