Chaffmeister,
I was going through my 2005 records... and came across this article:
"-Conference Speakers Say Consistent Supply and Liquid Market Needed
KANSAS CITY (Dow Jones) -- When it comes to hard white wheat production in the U.S., two key ingredients are still missing: a consistent supply and a liquid market, according to speakers at a recent Kansas State University conference.
"We've got people interested, but there isn't a consistent supply," said Roy Loepp, quality director of milling operations at Shawnee Mission, Kan.-based Seaboard Corporation, referring to overseas buyers and the U.S. hard white wheat market.
"Hard white wheat production in the United States needs to reach a critical mass point where it becomes a consistent part of the landscape," he said in a news release.
Loepp spoke at the Kansas State International Grains Program's Hard White Wheat Export Contracting Conference and Trade Show, held March 14-16 on the Manhattan, Kan., campus. The conference, also sponsored by U.S. Wheat Associates, brought together producers, grain handlers, domestic and export wheat buyers and flour millers to discuss the challenges and opportunities facing the industry.
Despite overseas buyers' strong interest in hard white wheat for such products as noodles, tortillas and breads, the U.S. continues to produce much more hard red winter and other types of wheat than it does hard white wheat, said Mark Fowler, IGP miller and conference coordinator, in the news release.
Hard white wheat production in Kansas this year is estimated to be about 5% of total state wheat production, with hard red winter wheat making up the rest of the crop, said David Frey, administrator of the Kansas Wheat Commission, in the release.
U.S. hard white wheat production this year is an estimated 1.01 million metric tons, said Ron Stoddard, executive director of the Nebraska Wheat Board. That compares with the U.S. Department of Agriculture's estimate of 2004 hard red winter wheat production at 23 million metric tons.
Seaboard Corporation is widely known as a hog production company, Loepp said, but it has a long history in the milling industry. He said better promotion, developing more varieties of wheat and making widely available wheat performance data would help the U.S. wheat industry expand hard white wheat production.
Kelly Spitzer, vice president and grain merchandiser of Tempel Grain Company in Wiley, Colo., said in the news release that five of Tempel's 11 elevators in southeastern Colorado will handle hard white wheat this year. Two of its locations (in Towner and Sheridan) will be devoted to hard white wheat only, while its elevators in Haswell, Wiley and Springfield will take in hard white wheat and others. Tempel will take steps to segregate the hard white wheat from other cultivars.
"We've made this commitment to the producers in the area," she said.
Tempel is looking to California and Mexico as its best market prospects, Spitzer"
What has changed?
Nothing!
In fact it is even more important to the health of those in North America to grow Hard White Wheat.
The CWRS Red Bran has tanin in it, CWRS whole grain brown bread takes much more SUGAR...
I have been told up to 3 times that of Hard White whole grain bread... to attain the same taste.
With Obesity a VERY important issue... and Diabetic problems right behind... it is critical that we get our hard white wheat supply up; NOW.
AND the CWB dumps the CDN program...
From 2 million acres to .5:
because of past weathering problems and politics... it likes marketing CWRS into premium markets... and doesn't want Hard white to make us healthy?
HOW INSANE.
I for one believe this move by the CWB was evil, mean spirited... and deserves a sober second thought.
THis CWB decision could cost our health care systems in North America millions upon millions... if we let it stand.
And for spite?
I was going through my 2005 records... and came across this article:
"-Conference Speakers Say Consistent Supply and Liquid Market Needed
KANSAS CITY (Dow Jones) -- When it comes to hard white wheat production in the U.S., two key ingredients are still missing: a consistent supply and a liquid market, according to speakers at a recent Kansas State University conference.
"We've got people interested, but there isn't a consistent supply," said Roy Loepp, quality director of milling operations at Shawnee Mission, Kan.-based Seaboard Corporation, referring to overseas buyers and the U.S. hard white wheat market.
"Hard white wheat production in the United States needs to reach a critical mass point where it becomes a consistent part of the landscape," he said in a news release.
Loepp spoke at the Kansas State International Grains Program's Hard White Wheat Export Contracting Conference and Trade Show, held March 14-16 on the Manhattan, Kan., campus. The conference, also sponsored by U.S. Wheat Associates, brought together producers, grain handlers, domestic and export wheat buyers and flour millers to discuss the challenges and opportunities facing the industry.
Despite overseas buyers' strong interest in hard white wheat for such products as noodles, tortillas and breads, the U.S. continues to produce much more hard red winter and other types of wheat than it does hard white wheat, said Mark Fowler, IGP miller and conference coordinator, in the news release.
Hard white wheat production in Kansas this year is estimated to be about 5% of total state wheat production, with hard red winter wheat making up the rest of the crop, said David Frey, administrator of the Kansas Wheat Commission, in the release.
U.S. hard white wheat production this year is an estimated 1.01 million metric tons, said Ron Stoddard, executive director of the Nebraska Wheat Board. That compares with the U.S. Department of Agriculture's estimate of 2004 hard red winter wheat production at 23 million metric tons.
Seaboard Corporation is widely known as a hog production company, Loepp said, but it has a long history in the milling industry. He said better promotion, developing more varieties of wheat and making widely available wheat performance data would help the U.S. wheat industry expand hard white wheat production.
Kelly Spitzer, vice president and grain merchandiser of Tempel Grain Company in Wiley, Colo., said in the news release that five of Tempel's 11 elevators in southeastern Colorado will handle hard white wheat this year. Two of its locations (in Towner and Sheridan) will be devoted to hard white wheat only, while its elevators in Haswell, Wiley and Springfield will take in hard white wheat and others. Tempel will take steps to segregate the hard white wheat from other cultivars.
"We've made this commitment to the producers in the area," she said.
Tempel is looking to California and Mexico as its best market prospects, Spitzer"
What has changed?
Nothing!
In fact it is even more important to the health of those in North America to grow Hard White Wheat.
The CWRS Red Bran has tanin in it, CWRS whole grain brown bread takes much more SUGAR...
I have been told up to 3 times that of Hard White whole grain bread... to attain the same taste.
With Obesity a VERY important issue... and Diabetic problems right behind... it is critical that we get our hard white wheat supply up; NOW.
AND the CWB dumps the CDN program...
From 2 million acres to .5:
because of past weathering problems and politics... it likes marketing CWRS into premium markets... and doesn't want Hard white to make us healthy?
HOW INSANE.
I for one believe this move by the CWB was evil, mean spirited... and deserves a sober second thought.
THis CWB decision could cost our health care systems in North America millions upon millions... if we let it stand.
And for spite?
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