Food security is top of mind for grain storage and handling companies across the world, as political instability and trade restrictions cause global supply chain disruptions and shortages. For equipment manufacturers and suppliers, that means demand is increasing for greenfield facilities, said those who responded to a survey by World Grain.

Join NAWG’s advocacy campaign to engage with legislators on increasing Market Access Program (MAP) and Foreign Market Development (FMD) programs authorized in the Farm Bill. MAP’s authorized funding has not changed since 2006 and FMD funding has remained the same since 2002. Inflation and sequestration have significantly eroded our ability to compete with other countries who are steadily investing more in their agricultural export promotion efforts. Please visit NAWG’s website to participate in the grassroots efforts to make your voice heard.

Moscow seems intent on letting the Black Sea Grain Initiative expire next Monday, but the United Nations is equally resolved to preserve the deal and prevent food prices from rising in some of the poorest nations. Without the UN-led deal that allows Ukraine to export commodities such as wheat, corn, barley and sunflower meal, global food prices will spike, and people in the poorest countries that depend on cheap commodities will suffer the most.

The Idaho Wheat Commission (IWC) takes a wheat variety survey twice a year, spring and winter, to gather data on variety usage. Please take a few minutes to fill out the survey. Your responses are anonymous and aggregated across multi-county reporting districts.

Farmers from eight states in the southern half of the nation recently toured agricultural production and processing operations in Idaho as part of the National Cotton Council’s Multi-Commodity Education Program (MCEP). Launched in 2006, the program is coordinated by NCC’s Member Services, and commodity association leadership. It is supported by The Cotton Foundation with a grant from John Deere.

The U.S. Wheat Associates (USW) board of directors seated officers for 2023/24 at their annual meeting July 12, 2023, in Minneapolis, Minn. USW is the export market development organization for the U.S. wheat industry. Michael Peters, Okarche, Okla., accepted the USW Chairman’s gavel from 2022/23 Chair Rhonda Larson, East Grand Forks, Minn. Clark Hamilton, Ririe, Idaho, now serves as Vice Chair, and Jim Pellman, McClusky, N.D., starts his term as Secretary-Treasurer. This slate of officers was elected in February 2023.

In a large-scale study, now published in npj Science of Food and conducted by the University of Hohenheim in Stuttgart and the University Medical Center Mainz, researchers identified a total of 2,896 different proteins in 150 flour samples from the five types of wheat—einkorn, emmer, spelt, and durum and common wheat. In addition to the place of cultivation, the respective variety plays a major role. That information could be put to good use. Proteins, whose occurrence depends primarily on the variety, could be influenced by targeted breeding.