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Idaho Wheat Commission Cereal Schools

About the Idaho Wheat Commission • Self-governing state agency created in 1959 • Funded by a .035-cent assessment • Board of five wheat producers

IWC FY 2018 Budget Allocation Idaho Wheat Commission 2017/2018 Budget $3,183,429 3% 1% Market Development 25% 26% Research Communications & Grower Education Office Operations 45% Capital Outlay

IWC FY 2018 Budget Ten Largest Budget Items University of Idaho $1,088,911 • Wheat Variety Research $344,178 • Pest & Disease Research $163,707 • Production Practices Research $301,548 • Wheat Quality Lab $122,706 Idaho Grain Producers Association $406,000 U.S. Wheat Associates $319,800 IWC Salaries & Benefits $277,000 Wheat Marketing Center $199,035 Other Research $106,940 National Association of Wheat Growers $ 78,000 Equipment and Infrastructure $ 50,000

What is New in Idaho Wheat? • New soft white varieties - UI Sparrow - UI Magic CLP • Amy Lin, wheat starch chemistry team • Wheat Molecular Genetics Program with Daolin Fu

What is New in Idaho Wheat? • Renegotiation of royalties with UI will put hundreds of thousands of dollars back into wheat breeding. • ID, OR, WA funding soft UI Stone white flour technician for Latin America • ID, WA funding testing of hard white in Taiwan UI Magic CLP

Idaho Water Storage January 2018

Great Plains Very Dry Upward Pressure on Prices

World Supply and Demand

World Production and Use 800 740 742 750 700 755 MMT 754 650 600 550 500 Production Use

Wheat-Buying Teams Visits to Idaho in 2017 Vietnam & Indonesia Taiwan Chile Taiwan China Mexico

Columbia/Snake River System

Third largest grain export gateway in the world The West Coast destination for grain WHEAT SOYBEANS #1 in U.S. exports #2 in U.S. exports

Wheat Movement in the U.S 50% of the wheat produced in the US is exported 5% Lakes /St. Lawrence 49% Pacific 1% Atlantic Soft White Hard Red Spring Durum 3% Hard Red Winter 42% Gulf Rail to Mexico Hard White Soft Red Winter Source – US Wheat Associates

Snake River dams … and Wheat Seven major grain export facilities Nearly 10% of all U.S. wheat travels through the Snake River dams Over 17% of all U.S. wheat travels by barge on the inland Columbia/Snake

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