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Improve Wheat Farmers’ Profits & Move US Wheat Industry Upward
By Jim Palmer, NAWG CEO
& NWF Exec. Director
Unified Voice for U.S. Wheat Growers
• Goal: Establish strong relationships with wheat chain partners– Coordinate with NWF– Closer Relations with
State Associations &Commissions
– USW, ABA, NAMA– NWIC,NGFA, NAGEA – NSGA, ASA, NCGA, AFBF,
NFU & others
Unified Voice for U.S. Wheat Growers
• Goal: Dialogue and expand relationships – work toward unified agricultural policy– Summits or Forums
with wheat value chain
– Commodity Classic and coalition work with other commodity organizations
MY PROGRAM & POLICY PRIORITIES
Substantially increase public and private investments into wheat production innovation improve US farmer profitability.
Maintain & Improve all USDA risk management programs (explore new)
Maintain as best possible USDA-FAS level of investment to USW‘s & states’ International Trade & Marketing Programs
Start Efforts to get +15% yield by 2025
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Investment & Innovation
The Potential is Vast and Expanding
• Germplasm resources from 8,000 years– Both conventional and transgenic results
• Innovation in plant breeding technologies speeding up plant breeding process– Marker-assisted breeding – High-through-put screening– Hybridization– Biotechnology
Learning from those who gone before us
Investments Across the Board
• Supporting public investments– Strengthen and coordinate efforts to advocate for
Congressionally-directed funding– Advocate to the National Institute for Food and Agriculture
(NIFA) for federal grants to wheat
• Supporting private investments – Exclusive– Collaborative– Public-private
• Increased farmer investments at local as well as state and national level
Private Investments
• Increased private investment globally– Monsanto– Syngenta– BASF– Bayer CropScience– Dow AgroSciences– Limagrain Cereal
Seeds– Arcadia Biosciences
• On the path to commercialization– Specialties and/or
broadly-adapted traits– Traits include
• Yield• Disease• Heat tolerance
• Nitrogen use efficiency
• Moisture use • Nutrition traits
Principles for Commercializationadopted by NAWG and USW
1) Tech provider dialogue with USW/NAWG Joint Biotech Committee prior to regulatory approvals
2) Regulatory approvals secured in major export markets with functioning regulatory systems
3) Trait must not impair ability of non-transgenic wheat to meet low level presence thresholds
4) Accurate, economical, timely trait detection test
5) Education/outreach by tech provider; USW & NAWG to provide guidance, assistance, resources
6) Demonstrated stewardship of technology
7) Value capture model = certified seed system
Policy Focus in 2015
• Research: TCAP, NWIC Research Fly Inn• Protecting Crop Ins & Farm Bill Changes• APHIS GMO Wheat Announcement• Environmental regulation-Sustainability
• Trade & Transportation• Start Proactive Planning for Farm Bill 2019
Risk Management Programs
• Goal: Protect and Improve crop insurance programs – Maintain &
Increase Coverage
– Risk Management Tools
– Flexibility
Risk Management Programs
• Goal: Improve U.S. transportation infrastructure – Rail access, rates,
and service– Waterways– Roadway farm to
market interstate/intrastate
Risk Management Programs
• Risk management for wheat growers from 2014 Farm Bill– Quantify how new federal farm programs address
needs– Begin discussions with agricultural organizations
about goals, respecting differences, agreeing on common ground
– Build coalitions around common goals
Industry Coordination
Timing is everything. When biotech wheat is ready, the entire industry needs to be ready.
Wheat Innovation Alliance
Society’s Expectations of Food Producers
• More food on fewer acres with
less water and less energy– Air and water quality– Wildlife habitat
• Sustainability– Environmental health, stewardship– Social and economic equity with
prosperous farming communities– Farm profitability Photo by Sarah Heller, 2009
Kansas Wheat Commission State Fair Photo Contest
THE PURPOSE OF NAWG FOUNDATION
Strategic Planning Process
• Foundation is 36 years old; non-profit charitable organization; 501(c) 3
• Recent activities include building ownership and leadership programs
• Bringing together the wheat industry is great (WIA)
• Planning & Evaluation Studies & Analysis
Our Goal
New strategic direction to add value to state and national wheat grower
organizations by enhancing impact and increasing influence
NATIONAL WHEAT FOUNDATION
VISION
The national center for
wheat research information,
education and outreach
MISSION STATEMENT
To purposefully advance the wheat industry
through strategic research, education and outreach collaborations
Looking to the Future
• Add value through: – Collaborations– Leveraging resources
• Dual advisory board structure will allow a broader base for input and decision making– Research collaborations between state farmer
groups– Education and outreach collaborations between
states, industry and other wheat chain organizations
I want & need your help! Thank you
Jim Palmer
NAWG CEO & NWF Exec. Director
Phone: 202-547-7800 x1
Cell: 202-591-5845
Email: [email protected]
Personal: [email protected]
Home: 703-820-2159
Wife (Susan) 507-327-6902
Susan’s email: [email protected]
