Members of the US congress speaking in person and virtually at the International Sweetener Symposium in Napa on Aug. 7 expressed doubt as to whether the 2023 farm bill would be passed this year. “It’s going to be a challenge to provide a farm bill by the end of the year,” said Representative Jim Costa of California, a member of the House Agriculture Committee. Instead, he expects a continuing resolution on the matter until the end of the year, considering Congress also has to pass a budget during that time.

The Idaho Wheat Commission (IWC) takes a wheat variety survey twice a year, spring and winter, to gather data on variety usage. The survey takes just under two minutes to complete. Your responses are anonymous and aggregated across multi-county reporting districts.Click the link below to complete the survey

The Columbia Snake River System is a keystone of the Pacific Northwest agricultural economy, an advocate for river users says. An average of 51 million tons of cargo moves through the lower Columbia River each year. About two-thirds of those exports are grain, and about 8.5 million tons of cargo are barged through the inland system of locks and dams, said Heather Stebbings, executive director of Pacific Northwest Waterways Association. The system is the No. 1 wheat export gateway in the U.S., No. 2 in the nation for corn and soybean exports and No. 3 in the world for grain exports, she said.

Hydropower is an important source of reliable and clean energy for everyone in the Northwest, especially Idahoans. However, with the recent debate surrounding the Snake River dams concentrated on the benefits for and support in Washington state, we want to emphasize just how significant an effect these dams have on Idaho and why we must continue to protect them.

Building a kernel photo library with new and updated images from each of the six classes of U.S. wheat requires the single steady hand of a skilled photographer. And hundreds of hands of support from everyone else. The wheat kernel photo library project, which U.S. Wheat Associates (USW) began planning earlier this year, took a major leap forward in June, when the Department of Plant Sciences at North Dakota State University hosted a photo crew from Middle, USW’s creative agency in Manhattan, Kansas.

As a consequence of the different variables that affect the inputs for making bread in the country, Bogotá is one of the cities where the price of this food has increased prudently in recent months, costing between 400 and 600 pesos in the city's bakeries. However, in the south of the country's capital there is still a place that stands out for keeping the cost of bread even below 200 pesos....These topics were some of those that were analyzed during the 'Logistics and Freight Seminar', organized by the US Wheat Associates, the United States wheat export market development organization.

US Wheat Associates Board Chairman, Michael Peters says they continue to work on building export markets for wheat. He points out one of the biggest challenges has been Russia. "Russia has still been shipping out, you know, a lot of wheat over this past year when they've shipped it out at a lot cheaper price than what we're able to grow and produce it here in the US. So that has created some issues for us, you know, with our overseas customers.