Opening doors for exports in Vietnam

It’s a repeating mantra at crop meetings. Globally the middle class is growing—and therefore demand for high quality animal proteins will grow. And this is good news for the U.S. grain and meat export business. A morning Learning Center Session March 1 address this booming export market, and specifically the opportunities to be found in [...]

Food waste is a growing problem

More than 67 billion pounds of food are wasted per year in the United States. That’s equivalent to four meals per day that could be fed to the 47 million Americans currently living in a state of food insecurity. Kai Robertson, with Business for Social Responsibility, shared that alarming statistic Feb. 28 at the 2012 [...]

NAWG begins committee meetings

The 2011 Commodity Classic  officially begins today, March 3, but commodity groups were already starting to gather in committee meetings to review policy for the coming year. The National Association of Wheat Growers began March 2 with the Research and Technology Committee meeting, followed by the Domestic and Trade Policy Committee, and the Environmental and [...]

Fusarium Head Blight Alert System goes live in March

The U.S. Wheat & Barley Scab Initiative’s FHB Alert System has added Louisiana and Mississippi to 24 other winter- and spring-wheat producing states that were active in the program in 2010. With these Gulf Coast states, the projected “go live” date this year is early March. Another important change for 2011 is the refinement of [...]