U.S. Wheat Associates

U.S. Wheat Associates announced this week that they are closing down their office in Cairo, Egypt effective December 1st.   President Vince Peterson said the closure is not a reflection of the staff but rather a need to adjust their marketing strategies and opened a position in Casablanca, Morocco in 2014.  ...

Round Four of NAFTA renegotiations have wrapped up in Arlington, VA but is the focus on these talks, or decisions on a trade deal with Korea costing the U.S. opportunities elsewhere?   That’s the concern of Vince Peterson, President of U.S. Wheat A...

Ask any wheat grower and they’ll tell you this is a challenging time with acreage dropping, production dropping and prices dropping.   Steve Mercer with U.S. Wheat said that’s the same story around most of the world with few exceptions and that could help a rebound.   “But th...

The U.S. Wheat Associates has been in existence for 37 years, and in all that time they had just three presidents … until now.   Alan Tracy retired from the Presidency after 20 years of serving wheat growers and the wheat industry. He will ha...

Mike Miller, a Ritzville wheat farmer, will become the new chair of U.S. Wheat Associates in July.   Miller said he got involved in leadership at the behest of his wife and many others when he seemed in a rut, and has really enjoyed working with the industry mostly because he thinks of farming like manufacturing and he really wanted to see the end product.  ...

Mike Miller of Ritzville has been named as the new Chairman of U.S. Wheat Associates after previously serving as the Vice Chairman.   Miller is a fourth generation farmer who has served three terms on the Washington Grain Commission, and is in his fifth year as the USW Director representing Washington.  ...

U.S. Wheat Associates will bring milling executives from one of the largest Indonesian companies to America this month to tour the U.S. wheat supply chain.  The managers of four different flour mills under the same umbrella company will learn how U.S. h...

This week, the U.S. Wheat Associates is hosting its Latin American and Caribbean Wheat Buyers Conference in Portland.  U.S. Wheat Associates Vice President Vince Peterson said this market in particular is growing all the time.   “When we first started doing this in about 1992 or 1993, this kind of a biannual conference, about 10% of U.S. Wheat export...