NAWG:
Canada-Colombia
FTA Puts Critical U.S. Wheat Market at Risk
7.6.10 - A statement from National Association of Wheat
Growers Chief Executive Officer Dana Peterson and U.S. Wheat
Associates President Alan Tracy:
“The
Canadian parliament has ratified a bilateral free trade
agreement (FTA) with Colombia that will, when implemented,
allow Canadian wheat to enter that country duty free.
“The
agreement gives a major wheat-producing competitor an
immediate price advantage in a market where U.S. wheat exports
had earned a dominant market share. It means that U.S. wheat
producers could lose sales worth $70 million today to Canada
at a time when they can least afford it. In fact, U.S. farm
families now face losing a substantial portion of agricultural
exports to Colombia worth nearly $1.7 billion, including $330
million in wheat exports, in 2008. Even more disturbing is the
fact that our farmers should never have faced this dilemma.
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2010 Wheat
Variety Test Results are In
(7.1.10)
The official Kentucky Wheat Variety Test results are now
available (in Excel tables) at
www.uky.edu/ag/WheatVarietyTest. A
summarized bulletin will be available at a later date.
According
to Bill Bruening, wheat variety test coordinator at the
University of Kentucky, no wheat variety testing program has
ever released results in June; we are 3 weeks ahead of the
norm.
"This
feat would not be possible with out the support (upgrading
combine technology) from KySGGA," said Bruening. "This is what
the growers wanted, and is truly a success story. Releasing
quality data in a timely fashion allows growers to make
variety selection decisions and maximize potential production
profitability. In the past, many variety selection decisions
were made before this data was available."
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UK Releases Updated Wheat Management Guide
Production supported by KySGGA
The University of Kentucky has released an updated version of
extension publication ID-125: A Comprehensive Guide to
Wheat Management in Kentucky. KySGGA provided checkoff
dollars to support the update and printing costs. The original
publication was released about 10 years ago, also supported by
KySGGA.
Printed copies will not be
available for several weeks, but producers may view the
publication online at
www.ca.uky.edu/agc/pubs/id/id125/id125.htm
KySGGA would like to thank Chad
Lee, UK Extension Grain Specialist, for leading the project.
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