Regularly
updated Grant County Grain Prices
are provided for several varieties of wheat grown in the
Inland Northwest.
The web site of Wilson Creek Union
Grain & Trading Company, Wilson Creek, WA, provides
information to growers in eastern and central Washington
state, Idaho, Oregon, and Montana seeking market information
to sell their own crops, buyers and exporters seeking
commodity price information, and farmers and ranchers
inquiring into seed and feed
prices.
The Grant County facility
offers grain, feed and seed to area producers as well
as to exporters and counties around the world. Crops include:
barley, and these wheats: SWW, soft white wheat, HRW,
hard red wheat , DNS, dark northern spring, and Club.
The warehouse provides daily
quotes as well as information about the LDP. Loan Deficiency
Payments are payments made to producers who, though eligible
to obtain a Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) loan, forgo
the loan in return for a payment on the eligible commodity.
LDP's represent the last of the "safety net" type programs
left in the wake of the Freedom to Farm provisions of
the 1996 Farm Bill.
Futures
Trading
Available
on its web site are futures trading
& price information through the Minneapolis
Grain Exchange, its daily and future quotes. The Minneapolis
Exchange offers contracts on durum, spring wheat, and
white wheat. Other exchange information available though
the Wilson Creek web site is from the Chicago Board
of Trade, which offers wheat futures and options and
the Kansas City Board of Trade, which offers a hard
red winter wheat contract. Futures trading information,
futures and options quotes are available through the
commodity exchange information offered to growers who
may seek to hedge their crops
Certified
Seed
A
certified seed plant, certified by the Washington State
Crop Improvement Association, Wilson Creek Union Trading
Company is a seed conditioner, cleaner, and marketer of
certified seed. Seed offered is Madsen and Eltan, both
soft white wheat. It also offers certified Club wheat,
with these varieties: Rely and Coda; and also offers Edwin
as registered seed. It offers seed treatments including
Seedlife, Apron, Dividend and can custom clean and treat
seed. Also, available are wholesale quantities of certified
Madsen wheat.
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