Posted December 19, 2022. A regular meeting of the Michigan Wheat Committee will be held on Tuesday, Jan 17, 2023. The business session is scheduled to begin at 8:00 p.m. The meeting will be held virtually via zoom. Contact the Michigan Wheat Program office via email at: jody@miwheat.org to receive
MI Ag CORE graduates inaugural class! Lansing, Mich. (Dec. 18, 2022) – Take 16 Michiganians wanting to learn more and hone their personal skills in Communication, Organization, Relationships and Engagement + add 1 year of focused sessions + a final presentation = and what do you get? The first-ever group
Lansing, Mich. (July 30, 2021) – Farmers planting wheat this fall will want to check the just-released results of the 9th consecutive year of high-management trials funded by the Michigan Wheat Program, which are part of the MSU Wheat Performance Trials. Those trial plots – located on seven farms in
Lansing, Mich. (April 12, 2021) – The vote is over, ballots are tallied and the results are in! The Michigan Department of Agriculture & Rural Development shared the results on April 12 of the recent continuation referendum for the Michigan Wheat Program. The news was good! The program was re-authorized
Michigan wheat growers have opportunity to vote on continuation of wheat check-off through April 2 Lansing, Mich. (March 22, 2021) – Michigan wheat growers should have received their ballots through their US mailbox for the official vote on the 5-year continuation of Michigan’s wheat check-off program. While the Michigan Wheat
2nd and 3nd speakers focus on wheat production and soil considerations Lansing, Mich. (February 21, 2021) – The Michigan Wheat Program’s Wheat-tastic Wheat Wisdom Webinar series steps into week #2 on February 24 with popular speaker Phil Needham of Needham Ag Technologies in Calhoun, Kentucky. The weekly programs occur via
Facebook Options Added as First Speaker Angie Setzer Focuses on Marketing Lansing, Mich. (February 10, 2021) – The Michigan Wheat Program’s six-part Wheat Wisdom Webinar series kicks off next week both via zoom and Facebook, at 8 a.m. on Weds., Feb. 17 with a focus on wheat marketing for 2021
Lansing, Mich. (January 4, 2021) – With the success of last June’s on-line, stay-at-home Michigan Wheat Summer Field Day – and the lingering COVID pandemic – the Michigan Wheat Program (MWP) has announced a creative new format for its winter meeting: Six weekly, wheat-tastic, wheat wisdom Wednesday webinars beginning in
Lansing, Mich. (August 3, 2020) – Making plans to plant wheat this fall? If so, you’ll want to check results of the high-management trials funded by the Michigan Wheat Program. For the 8th consecutive year, the Michigan Wheat Program has partnered with Michigan State University to have a high-management component
Lansing, Mich. (July 22, 2020) – As the state’s golden wheat crop is harvested, the Michigan Wheat Program announced that Governor Gretchen Whitmer has proclaimed July 2020 as Wheat Month in Michigan. The official proclamation from the Governor notes that wheat is grown on nearly 5,000 Michigan farms, producing approximately
The Michigan Wheat Program is a state-check off program voted in by the state’s wheat farmers to assess each bushel of wheat grown and sold. The funds from the program are utilized to further the wheat industry in the state benefitting the state’s nearly 8,000 wheat farmers who grow about 450,000 acres of wheat annually producing about a 40 million bushel crop.