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Industry Activities 

Pat Roberts of Kansas to helm
of Senate agriculture committee
WASHINGTON - Senator Pat Roberts of Kansas on Jan. 6 assumed the
leadership of the Senate Committee
on Agriculture Nutrition and Forestry.
Mr. Roberts became the ﬁrst member
of Congress to have served as chairman of both the House and Senate
agriculture committees. He was chairman of the House Committee on Agriculture from 1995 to 1997. As chairman, he was a principal in drafting the
Federal Agriculture Improvement and
Reform Act of 1996, popularly known
as the Freedom to Farm Act. At the

time, Senator Richard G. Lugar of Indiana was chairman of the Senate agriculture committee.
The Senate agriculture committee for the
114th Congress includes
three former committee
chairpersons,
including Republican Thad
Cochran of Mississippi Roberts
and Democrats Debbie
Stabenow of Michigan, the immediate
past committee leader, and Patrick J.
Leahy of Vermont.

Ardent Mills research director
addressing wheat quality groups
INDIANAPOLIS - Gang Guo, director
of wheat research and quality for Ardent
Mills, is the scheduled leadoff speaker at
the inaugural joint meeting of the Soft
Wheat Quality Laboratory Research Review and the Soft Wheat Quality Council.
The meeting will be held March 3-4
at the Crown Plaza - Indianapolis
Airport. A decision to meet jointly followed a discussion last spring at the
Soft Wheat Laboratory of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural
Research Service in Wooster, Ohio.

Mr. Guo and other invited presenters
will speak the afternoon of March 3. During
the morning, Soft Wheat Quality Laboratory research presentations will be offered on
the effects of wheat grain storage on falling
number; high ratio baking test of non-chlorinated flour; steam bread making quality
of soft red wheat and endosperm separation from brand versus flour yield.
In his talk, Mr. Guo will discuss the correlation between whole wheat bread consumer hedonic scores and quantitative
descriptive analysis results.

Wheat industry groups express
support for Cuba trade thaw
KANSAS CITY - The Kansas Wheat
Commission and other industry organizations have gone on record in support of
President Barack Obama's initiative to renew diplomatic relations with Cuba. The
change was seen resulting in more U.S.
wheat sales to Cuba after a difficult trade
relationship over the last several decades.
"U.S. wheat farmers are excited about the
prospect of exporting more wheat to Cuba,"

said Paul Penner, a wheat farmer in Marion
county, Kas., and president of the National
Association of Wheat Growers (NAWG).
Alan Tracy, president of U.S. Wheat Associates, added that the U.S. wheat industry applauds efforts to restore normal trade
relations with Cuba, noting that previous
government policy "accomplished little."
Cuba is the largest wheat market in the
Caribbean and buys most of its wheat from

Pulse Canada to receive more
than C$3 million in funding
SASKATOON, SASK. - The Canadian
government will invest more than C$3.3
million ($2.8 million) to assist Pulse Canada, a national industry association representing growers, processors and traders of pulse crops, said Gerry Ritz, agriculture minister of Canada, on Jan. 13.
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The government's AgriMarketing
Program will provide more than C$3
million in funding over five years under Growing Forward 2, a policy framework that helps farmers and food processors compete in both domestic and
foreign markets. The funding includes

Other Republican members of the
Senate agriculture committee include
Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the
Senate majority leader; John Boozman of Arkansas, John Hoeven of
North Dakota, David Purdue of Georgia, Joni Ernst of Iowa, Thom Tillis of
North Carolina, Ben Sasse of Nebraska, Charles Grassley of Iowa and John
Thune of South Dakota.
Other Democrat members of the
committee include Sherrod Brown of
Ohio, Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota,
Michael Bennet of Colorado, Kirsten
Gillibrand of New York, Joe Donnelly
of Indiana, Heidi Heitkamp of North
Dakota and Robert P. Casey Jr. of
Pennsylvania. MBN
Andrew Ross, a professor at Oregon
State University, will offer a research update titled, "Validation and exploration,
from falling number to oxidative gelation
and beyond."
Stephen Delwiche, a scientist/agriculture engineer at the A.R.S., will discuss
"Hyperspectral imaging for grain quality/imaging of single seeds/identifying
the source of variation in the falling number procedure."
Following a break, Mohsen Mohammadi, a faculty member at Purdue University, will discuss "Challenges and opportunities in breeding high yielding and
disease resistant wheat varieties with superior quality." MBN
the European Union and Canada. Many
other Caribbean nations buy the majority of their wheat from the United States.
After a 40-year hiatus, Cuba was able to
purchase U.S. hard red winter wheat from
2002 until 2010, and it bought up to 70% of
its wheat imports from the United States
before an embargo was reinstituted.
"Since we do have an 80% market
share in the Caribbean, I think we could
have that kind of relationship with Cuba
under normalized trade," said Justin Gilman, chief executive offer of the Kansas
Wheat Commission. MBN
C$1.3 million to generate new tools
for the Canadian grain, oilseed and
pulse industries that will measure the
sustainability performance of Canadian agriculture; C$870,261 to market
the nutritional value, health benefits
and sustainability of Canadian pulses;
and C$897,311 to engage Canadian
stakeholders in support of eliminating trade barriers that limit growth
opportunities. MBN
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