DEPENDABLE PEOPLE.RELIABLE WHEAT.
The highest quality food demands the highest quality wheat.
For 40 years, the world has depended on U.S. Wheat Associates to deliver the difference.
USW proudly represents the hard-working farm families that produce enough wheat every year to fill American tables, while still supplying a substantial share of world wheat trade.
USW promotes the reliability, quality and value of all six U.S. wheat classes to wheat buyers, millers, bakers, food processors and government officials in more than 100 countries around the world.
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Wheat Letter, the official blog of U.S. Wheat Associates, covers world supply and demand, trade policy, crop quality and other wheat industry news.
Weekly Harvest Report
Every Friday through the U.S. harvest season (May to October), U.S. Wheat Associates and its partner organizations compile a Harvest Report. It includes updates on crop quality, harvest progress and crop conditions for hard red winter, soft red winter, hard red spring, soft white and durum wheat.
Weekly Price Report
Every Friday, U.S. Wheat Associates compiles information from market sources, including U.S. wheat exporters of all classes from various U.S. ports. The prices represent the value of number two grade and the proteins indicated.
USW develops, maintains and expands international markets to enhance wheat’s profitability for U.S. wheat producers and its value for their customers.
U.S. farmers
produce about
1.9 Billion bushels of wheat every year.
The United States exports enough wheat
every year to fill a train
2,450
miles long from New Orleans, Louisiana, to Portland, Oregon.
Every year
it takes about
500
Panamax size cargo ships to deliver U.S. wheat around the world.
The world uses U.S. wheat
as an essential ingredient in more than
200
different types of food.
Ocean Freight Rates Follow Rising Bulk Commodity Demand
A spike in ocean freight rates is creating some heartburn for dry bulk commodity buyers who may be uncovered over the next few months as strong global demand for...
MOREMarch 4, 2021
U.S. Wheat Associates (USW) publishes a new Commercial Sales report every Thursday documenting wheat export sales-to-date by country and class for the current...
MOREPublic Wheat Breeding Programs Serving Soft Red Winter Producers
In this post, Wheat Letter looks at public university wheat breeding programs in Ohio and Maryland, with references to programs in other U.S. states growing soft...
MOREState Department Official: Food Security Depends on Building and Protecting Entire Food Ecosystem
Remarks by Thomas Duffy, Director of the Office of Agricultural Policy at the U.S. Department of State, to USW) and NAWG Joint Wheat Breeding Innovation...
MOREPrice Report – February 26, 2021
Every Friday, U.S. Wheat Associates (USW) compiles information from market sources, including U.S. wheat exporters of all classes from various U.S. ports. The...
MOREU.S. Wheat Associates Announces Changes to its South Asian Marketing Team
ARLINGTON, Virginia – U.S. Wheat Associates (USW) announces that Regional Vice President for South Asia Matt Weimar plans to retire Aug. 31, 2021, after 34...
MOREFebruary 25, 2021
U.S. Wheat Associates (USW) publishes a new Commercial Sales report every Thursday documenting wheat export sales-to-date by country and class for the current...
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