NAWG President Wayne Hurst, a wheat farmer from Burley, Idaho, wrote the leaders of the House and Senate Agriculture Committees Tuesday regarding the Association’s farm policy priorities. The full letter is available here.

Leaders of the U.S. wheat industry applauded President Barack Obama’s signing on Friday of three long-pending free trade agreements, with Colombia, Panama and South Korea.

Statement from Wayne Hurst, NAWG president, and Randy Suess, U.S. Wheat Associates chairman, following Congressional passage of free trade agreements with Colombia, Panama and South Korea.

The National Association of Wheat Growers (NAWG) and U.S. Wheat Associates (USW) are pleased that the Obama Administration submitted implementing legislation for pending free trade agreements (FTAs) with Colombia, Panama and South Korea on Monday.