Video: 2023 Crop Quality Report Available, USW Seminars Scheduled in Seven Regions Around the World
U.S. Wheat Associates (USW) has published its 2023 Crop Quality Report, which includes grade, flour and baking data for all six U.S. wheat classes. The report compiles comprehensive data from the analysis of hundreds of samples conducted during and after harvest by our partner organizations and laboratories. The report provides essential, objective information to help […]
2023 Hard Red Spring Crop Offers Familiar Dough Strength, Improved Baking Functions
The 2023 U.S. hard red spring (HRS) crop was produced under a wide range of growing conditions. A late spring delayed planting but the early moisture helped establish the crop. Then conditions across the region turned hot and dry with only spotty areas of rain. The rain returned and delayed mid- to late-harvest. Ultimately, total […]
2023 Hard Red Winter Crop: Unexpected Production; Excellent Quality
The 2023 U.S. hard red winter (HRW) growing season saw a mixed bag of conditions from another severe drought in the southern and central Great Plains to nearly ideal rain and temperatures in the northern plains and Pacific Northwest (PNW). Total production, while still quite low historically, reached 16.4 million metric tons (MMT), a 13% […]
Farmers Overcome Hot, Dry Season to Produce Highly Functional Soft White Wheat
“It was a challenging year,” said Oregon farmer David Brewer of the 2023 soft white (SW) wheat production season. “However, I believe that our investments into variety development and adoption of sustainable management practices have helped us ensure the best functionality from the 2023 crop.” Seeding conditions were good in the fall of 2022 with […]
Final Harvest Report Confirms High Quality Northern Durum Crop
The 2023 U.S. wheat harvest has ended and U.S. Wheat Associates (USW) published its final weekly Harvest Report Oct. 6. This year’s first Harvest Report appeared May 19 and was published every Friday afternoon (Eastern Time) throughout the season with updates and comments on harvest progress, crop conditions for hard red winter (HRW), soft red […]
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Helps Break Ground on New Agricultural Research Service Facility
Federal officials including U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack joined Washington state lawmakers and university leaders in early August for the groundbreaking of a new U.S. Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS) Plant Sciences Building on the Washington State University (WSU) campus in Pullman. ARS is USDA’s “in-house research agency” focused on delivering scientific solutions […]
2023 Wheat Tour Sees Short Crop; Black Sea Grain Deal Prevents Rally
As expected, the results of the 2023 Hard Winter Wheat Tour the week of May 15 confirmed the extremely short wheat crop in Kansas and surrounding states. Typically, the market reaction would be bullish. But 2023 is not a typical year, and the volatile uncertainty of the Black Sea conflict once again overshadowed basic supply […]
‘Learn So We Can Teach’ Was One Goal of USW’s 2023 Core Competency Training in Santiago
Educators describe internal training sessions as “learning so we can teach.” The U.S. Wheat Associates (USW) version for its staff dives a few rungs deeper than that. “The goal is to learn and do so we can, in turn, teach our customers around the world,” is how Miguel Galdos, Regional Director of the USW South […]
USW Welcomes Syngenta’s Hybrid Wheat Commitment
U.S. Wheat Associates (USW) is encouraged that technology company Syngenta expects to have commercial-scale hard red spring (HRS) and hard red winter (HRW) hybrid wheat seed available for U.S. farmers within the next three years. Hybrid wheat’s primary value is demonstrated in a productive yield increase. This is needed by farmers around the world to […]
What to Know About Clean Label and Implications for Wheat Food Production
Editor’s Note: Important work has been done indicating that U.S. hard red spring (HRS) is a potential “clean label” ingredients for the world’s commercial bakers. To help wheat buyers understand more about this opportunity, U.S. Wheat Associates (USW) is reprinting the following post originally published in October 2021. The concept of “clean label” products is […]