ISSUE 5
January 1997

USW distributes 1996 crop quality information
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Prairie Grains is the
official publication of
the Minnesota
Association of
Wheat Growers,
North Dakota Grain
Growers Association,
South Dakota Wheat,
Inc., and the
Minnesota Barley
Growers Association.

 U.S. Wheat Associates, the wheat growers’ foreign market development organization, has published its "1996 Crop Quality Report", and is distributing information contained in the report to overseas buyers and millers through crop quality seminars in various locations throughout the world.

USW has published an annual crop quality report and conducted related seminars for more than 10 years. The report contains detailed quality data on all 6 classes of U.S. wheat. The report urges overseas buyers to use the quality parameters in the report to assist them in specifying quality requirements in their purchase contracts. Seminars this season have been conducted in more than 25 cities in Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Europe and Latin America. In addition to crop quality, speakers also address the world supply and demand situation.

A total of 1,280 hard red spring wheat samples were collected during the 1996 harvest from elevators and growers in North Dakota, Minnesota, South Dakota, and Montana.

The samples from 1996 indicated that test weight from the U.S. spring wheat growing region increased significantly over 1995. Wheat grading factors indicate higher quality wheat than the 1995 crop, with lower dockage than last year and the five-year average, and high falling number values which demonstrate the absence of sprout damage.

USW is funded in part by wheat checkoff programs administered by the MN Wheat Research and Promotion Council, ND Wheat Commission, and SD Wheat Commission.
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Grains Magazine

January 1997