UI Cookie was developed at the University of Idaho Research and Extension wheat breeding center in Aberdeen by Dr. Jianli Chen. UI Cookie has improved resistance to stripe rust, tolerance to Fusarium head blight and, while developed for irrigated production, has shown exceptional yields in both irrigated and dryland trials.

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Americans aren’t coming close to meeting the government’s recommendations for whole grains, according to a new USDA study. Under the federal dietary guidelines, a 2,000-calorie diet would include 6 ounces of grains, with at least half being whole grains. But whole grain consumption barely budged from 1998 to 2018, rising from an average of 0.4 ounces per 1,000 calories to 0.43 ounces over the two decades, the study says. One bright spot: School food has become the most whole-grain-dense food source.

On March 31, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) released its yearly Prospective Plantings Report, and Quarterly Grains Stocks reports. The reports provide valuable insights for U.S. wheat importing customers as we enter the final two months of the 2022/23 marketing year and look ahead to the 2023 harvest. In this article, we will analyze USDA’s recent reports and their implications while also looking at the broader market conditions not encapsulated in USDA’s data.

The wheat market barely rippled when Russia recently threatened to exit a grain export deal with Turkey, the United Nations and Ukraine, grain analysts say. The agreement allows food shipments from three Black Sea ports. Chicago wheat futures opened 12 to 15 cents higher on Sunday evening and fell 5 cents before settling at 4 cents up at closing, said Byron Behne, senior grain merchant for Northwest Grain Growers in Walla Walla, Wash. Soft white wheat ranged from $7.45 to $7.70 per bushel on the Portland market. "When they complain about this stuff, it used to give us bigger rallies, but ever since November, the first time the deal was renewed ... every time they complain about the deal, the reaction has been smaller than it was prior to that first big renewal,” Behne said.

Farmers who spent the past year staring at charts and graphs that gauge costs and returns would certainly by now be quite familiar with the sensation of vertigo. Up and down, down and up. The proper term is “volatility,” and for those who make a living growing wheat and other crops, it can affect decisions made in spring – a time when farmers typically spend a lot of money on the front end of one crop while also waiting for the rear end on another.

As a region that traditionally has relied on large amounts of imports to meet its wheat processing demands, Latin America has been profoundly impacted by the recent spike in food prices, pressure on supply chains and shifting trade patterns, Eduardo Pimentel, principal scientist at IFF, told World Grain during a recent interview. Exacerbating the problem is the worst drought in 60 years in Argentina, South America’s largest wheat producer and exporter, which is projected to produce only 12.9 million tonnes of wheat in the 2022-23 marketing year, down from 22.1 million last year, and export 6.5 million tonnes, a little more than one-third of the 2021-22 total.