Wednesday, February 22, 2012
The USDA forecasts the U.S. slice of the wheat export market will shrink from 23 percent to 16 percent in the next decade and the Black Sea region will claim the largest market share. Net U.S. wheat exports will decline from 22.8 million tons a year to 21 million tons by 2021 even as the export ...
Tuesday, February 21, 2012 5:40 PM
The $50 billion annual trade in organic products between the U.S. and the European Union could quadruple with the signing of a new trade agreement, a USDA official predicts. USDA Deputy Secretary Kathleen Merrigan said an agreement was signed Feb. 15 affirming that the organic certification and e ...
Thursday, February 16, 2012 12:00 PM
The grain export terminal at Longview, Wash., gives Northwest grain growers an edge in marketing their crop, a representative of the company that built the $200 million complex says. The EGT terminal's assets include the fastest unload times on the Columbia River, at 120,000 bushels per hour, c ...
Tuesday, February 07, 2012 5:22 PM
LONGVIEW, Wash. -- The first ship to be loaded with Washington-grown wheat at the new EGT grain terminal will arrive at the Port of Longview Feb. 7. Registered under EGT's partner company STX Pan Ocean, the ship will carry just over 57,000 metric tons of soft white wheat to South Korea. A labor ...
Monday, February 06, 2012 11:09 AM
A U.S. Wheat Associates manager of market development in the Middle East is retiring, to be replaced by a Pacific Northwest wheat veteran. Regional vice president Dick Prior will retire later this year. Prior oversees development of the wheat export market in the Middle East and parts of Afric ...
Monday, January 30, 2012 12:20 PM
Gov. Chris Gregoire today announced that EGT and the International Longshore and Warehouse Union have reached a tentative settlement over legal issues surrounding the labor dispute at the new grain export facility at the Port of Longview, Wash. The ILWU had protested EGT's refusal to hire its me ...
Monday, January 23, 2012 2:02 PM
U.S. Wheat Associates has announced that longtime regional vice president Dick Prior will retire later this year. Prior oversees development of the wheat export market in the Middle East and East and North Africa. Mark Samson, a Boise, Idaho, consultant and a former administrator of the Idaho W ...
Tuesday, January 17, 2012 11:56 AM
PORTLAND -- Occupy protesters closed Terminals 5 and 6 at the Port of Portland Monday as part of an effort to interrupt trade along the West Coast. Demonstrations were mostly peaceful, but Portland police arrested two people and seized weapons in the early morning. The suspects were wearing ca ...
Monday, December 12, 2011 5:58 PM
MEXICO CITY -- Idaho officials believe their recently concluded trade mission to Brazil and the first day of their mission to Mexico have resulted in some promising leads. "This is still part of the dating process," Lt. Gov. Brad Little said Thursday, Dec. 8, five days into the state's trade miss ...
Thursday, December 08, 2011 4:21 PM
FFA state officers from across the U.S. will get a close look at agriculture in China next month. Sixty-four students will participate in the International Leadership Seminar for State Officers, said Shane Jacques, education specialist for the National FFA organization, which will lead the grou ...
Monday, December 05, 2011 3:40 PM
Pacific Northwest potato representatives recently toured Southeast Asia to build existing markets and improve access to others. Chris Voigt, Washington State Potato Commission executive director, said the trip was a partnership between his commission, the Oregon Potato Commission and the Washingt ...
Thursday, December 01, 2011 10:00 AM
More barley production may move into the Pacific Northwest in the years ahead. Representatives of brewers and malting companies spoke with barley producers about the potential of the crop Nov. 17 during the Tri-State Grain Growers Convention in Spokane, Wash. "There may not be a lot of acres in ...
Wednesday, November 23, 2011 11:00 AM
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- Dozens of South Korean opposition lawmakers and aides have been barricading a committee room to block approval of an ambitious free-trade deal that was ratified by the U.S. last month. A ruling party lawmaker, meanwhile, is staging a hunger strike in support of the d ...
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 7:19 AM
A group of Canadian wheat farmers is suing the Canadian Wheat Board over alleged misuse of farmers' money. The Western Canadian Wheat Growers Association instructed lawyers on Oct. 27 to commence legal action against the Canadian Wheat Board and eight of its directors. The news came a day after ...
Thursday, November 03, 2011 11:00 AM
Potatoes are the main course on an upcoming Pacific Northwest trade mission to Southeast Asia. A USDA Specialty Crop Block Grant will fund the trip by the Washington and Oregon departments of agriculture, as well as representatives from both states' potato commissions. The itinerary for the earl ...
Thursday, October 27, 2011 12:00 PM
U.S. Wheat Associates wants to tell more growers how the organization works to develop export markets. The organization has added a new section to its website that includes reports on export market development activities, an annual report for the 2010-11 marketing year and information about promo ...
Thursday, October 20, 2011 11:00 AM
TOKYO -- A USDA Foreign Agricultural Service report on stone fruit states a bumper crop of cherries in Japan may slow imports. But that conclusion is misleading, said Scott Hitchman, who promotes Northwest cherries as the Japan representative for the Washington State Fruit Commission. Hitchman s ...
Thursday, October 13, 2011 10:00 AM
More Pacific Northwest wheat is going into feed than normal, according to industry members. "The feed values are higher than the export values," Ty Jessup, export industry representative for the Washington Grain Commission. "It's all about the price of corn. Corn is so high it's drug the value of ...
Friday, October 07, 2011 12:00 AM
JEFFERSON, Ore. -- As a youth growing up outside Silverton, Ore., Eric Pond became fascinated with agriculture. It's a fascination he hasn't lost. "There is nothing more fun than selecting a piece of ground, making the development plans, developing it, and then watching it mature," said Pond, ch ...
Thursday, October 06, 2011 9:00 AM
SHANGHAI -- Among a dozen posters hanging in the USDA Agricultural Trade Office's conference room here are several advertising Northwest cherries, California prunes and Oregon nurseries. In grocery stores here, Rogue ales from Oregon are a hot item, as are Pacific Food soups from Oregon and Amy's ...
Thursday, September 29, 2011 10:00 AM
SHANGHAI -- A sign at the entrance to the Pujianglan Blueberry Farm in the Songjiang District near Shanghai states fruit grown on the farm is organic. Yet grasses on field borders show signs of herbicide treatment and blueberry bushes on the outer rows suffer from herbicide damage. In China, whe ...
Thursday, September 29, 2011 10:00 AM
SHANGHAI -- Despite reports to the contrary, a top U.S. forest products executive said China's building boom is showing no signs of slowing. "I get the feeling things are going along pretty well over here, and they will continue to," Steve Zika, CEO of Hampton Affiliates, said Sept. 21 during an ...
Thursday, September 29, 2011 10:00 AM
Taiwan has been a leading export market of Washington apples for at least 30 years and in the top three for most of that. Large Washington Fuji have long been a prized treat in Taiwan for the Chinese New Year, which usually falls in early February. But other countries such as India, Indonesia an ...
Thursday, September 29, 2011 12:00 PM
A USDA official says a deal has been struck allowing Oregon to ship fresh blueberries to South Korea beginning in 2012. South Korea has been off-limits to fresh blueberries from the U.S. Angela McMellen Brannigan, a trade director from USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, sai ...
Tuesday, September 27, 2011 12:16 PM
TIANJIN, China -- Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber is re-establishing old ties and making new ones on a 13-day trade mission to Asia. Those on the trip say he is also opening doors for Oregon agriculture. "We are getting impressive opportunities here that would be difficult to put together without the ...
Thursday, September 22, 2011 9:00 AM
BEIJING -- Oregon is poised to sign a memorandum of understanding with Chinese officials stipulating the two governments will work to establish a food-safety certification arrangement. The arrangement, which would be the first of its kind between the U.S. and China, would allow Oregon to certify ...
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