Alternative Falling Number Measurement Tested by Wheat Marketing Center – May Benefit U.S. Farmers, Global Customers
An alternative way of measuring falling numbers that would benefit U.S. wheat farmers and customers around the world who rely on U.S. crop quality earned positive reviews during product testing late last year at the Wheat Marketing Center (WMC), Portland, Ore. Meanwhile, there is renewed hope for a “rapid” system that will allow farmers to […]
Wheat Industry News From Around the World
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 […]
Innovation to Meet Future Challenges – Ten Years Later
Editor’s Note: This article on wheat breeding innovation was originally published in the September 2014 issue of “Wheat Letter.” In the wake of the first deregulation of a biotechnology trait for wheat by USDA-APHIS, the article remains quite relevant ten years later. The article was written by then USW Vice President of Policy Shannon Schlecht. […]
Bioceres Affirms Commitment to U.S. Biotechnology Commercialization Principles
In its public statement following USDA’s deregulation of the HB4® drought-tolerance trait from Bioceres Crop Science on Aug. 29, U.S. Wheat Associates (USW) noted that it would continue monitoring how the company’s commercialization plans align with the “Wheat Industry Principles for Biotechnology Commercialization” developed jointly with the National Association of Wheat Growers (NAWG). USW was […]
U.S. Wheat Industry Stands to Benefit from North Dakota State University Expansion
Above photo: USW Secretary-Treasurer Jim Pellman; NDWC Board Member Jim Bahm; Past NDWC Chairman Greg Svenningsen; and past NDWC Chairman David Clough at the dedication of the Peltier Complex on the campus of North Dakota State University. U.S. Wheat Associates (USW) brings multiple teams of bakers and millers from around the world to the Northern […]
Farmer-Backed Heartland Plant Innovations Helps Unlock Wheat’s Genetic Potential
Six sets of seven chromosomes make the wheat genome five times larger than the human genome. This complexity makes wheat breeding even more difficult, but technology like double haploid breeding has helped public and private researchers unlock potential agronomic, quality and even nutritional traits. Key to this work is a farmer-backed, for-profit plant services company […]
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 […]
USW Explores Opportunities to Collaborate with Australia on Policy Initiatives
U.S. Wheat Associates (USW) Director of Trade Policy Peter Laudeman is in Australia this week to engage grain industry stakeholders in that country and explore ongoing global issues involving trade, plant breeding technologies and World Trade Organization (WTO) commitments. While a major competitor for U.S. wheat, Australia presents many opportunities for collaboration on policy initiatives […]
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 […]
Biodiversity and Productivity Has Grown in Modern U.S. Wheat Varieties
Reprinted with Permission from the University of Minnesota. Agriculture is seen as both a key cause of the global biodiversity crisis and a principal means of addressing it. Though some advocates are calling for farmers to return to heirloom varieties of crops as a way for the agriculture industry to address the growing challenges posed […]