Wheat Industry News

News from the Global Wheat Industry Speaking of Wheat “The MOU signing marks a major milestone for the Indonesian milling industry and U.S. wheat producers. Sales made over this five-year period will provide an opportunity to showcase the reliability and functionality of U.S. wheat. USW plans to work with our partners in Indonesia to leverage […]

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News from the Global Wheat Industry Speaking of Wheat “It’s a history that our farmers are very proud of … knowing they help to feed people and develop goodwill around the world. And in having a mechanism like WFP that can get the commodities to hungry people in challenging situations in a very responsible, efficient, […]

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News from the Global Wheat Industry Speaking of Wheat “You’re not going to have two of the same [hard red spring wheat futures] contracts competing. One will win out.” Ed Usset, Grain Market Economist and Professor at the University of Minnesota, commenting on the announcement that CME’s Globex will introduce a HRS contract once MIAX […]

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Real Ag Stock photo shows an aerial view of a combine harvesting soft red winter wheat with green fields in the background and a grain elevator on the horizon.

News from the Global Wheat Industry Speaking of Wheat “The Bornholdt family uses cover crops, no-till and other measures to conserve the land that’s been entrusted to their stewardship by previous generations. It’s important to them to make sure that future generations of Bornholdts have an opportunity to farm and be part of the Inman […]

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News from the Global Wheat Industry Speaking of Wheat “It has been a pleasure to work with the entire USW staff across the globe on various wheat trade issues and helping with the wheat grading seminars. USW has done a great deal to educate the foreign buyers and to support our farmers! I will never […]

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Speaking of Wheat “As president … I talked to experienced producers facing the realities of this downturn in the ag economy, and they feared they would not be able to secure operating credit in 2025 without some form of economic assistance. This legislation provides farmers with a bridge heading into next year. However … enacting […]

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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 […]

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Photo shows a large tractor with an attached planting implement and tanks with seed and fertilizer.

News and Information from Around the World Wheat Industry Speaking of Wheat “In 2024/25, despite less acreage being planted into wheat, more favorable weather is expected to boost [wheat] area harvested and yield compared with [2023/24]. Production is forecast higher for hard red winter, hard red spring, white, and durum classes of wheat as conditions […]

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News and Information from Around the World Wheat Industry Speaking of Wheat “If I am worth anything later, I am worth something now. For wheat is wheat, even if people think it is a grass in the beginning.” – Painter Vincent van Gogh. Above, Wheatfield with Crows, 1890, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam. USW Featured on […]

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News and Information from Around the World Wheat Industry   Speaking of Wheat “The [wheat] market is very much a balance of what’s going on all around the world. You really have to have a higher-level view of what production is like in the Black Sea, Australia or South America. There’s more complication, there’s more […]