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The
Wilson Creek Union Grain (WCUG)web site offers updated
Grant County Grain Prices for
Soft White Wheat, Hard Red Wheat, and Dark Northern Spring.
Portland
Oregon Market
Eastern
and Central Washington growers follow most closely the
Portland Oregon Market, which is featured on the WCUG
web site. It highlights daily local prices.
Serving Producers, Seed Growers, Livestock Operators
Wilson Creek Union Grain & Trading Company has been serving
wheat and barley producers, seed growers and livestock
operators in Eastern & Central Washington, Idaho,
and Oregon, since 1909. With headquarters and warehouses
in Wilson Creek, WA, an area that grows cereal grains
as its major agricultural crop, it also has branches in
nearby Stratford and Wye Station.
Elevator for Commercial Producer
A country grain elevator, seed and grain merchandiser,
it is served by the Burlington Northern Santa Fee Rail
Road. Nick Wride is the warehouse manager.
For the commercial producer, the elevator and warehouse
company offers storage, handling, marketing daily grain
prices, both cash and future commodity prices. For the
grain buyer, it markets the eastern and central Washington
wheat and barley varieties. It markets, SWW, Soft White
Wheat, HRW, Hard Red Wheat, DNS, Dark Northern Spring,
of HRS, or Hard Red Spring. Also from its elevator, it
markets Club wheat and barley.
Certified Seed & Seed Treatments
Also a certified seed plant, certified by the Washington
State Crop Improvement Association, WCUG is a seed conditioner,
grain 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.
Livestock Feed and Bulk Grain
As a feed plant, WCUG sells bulk grain. It markets wheat
and barley to livestock producers and can custom roll
livestock feed per specifications of the stockmen. The
Grant County, Washington facility is an excellent source
for animal feed.
Elevator
The Grant County, Washington, grain elevator, seed and
feed plant, serves Washington seed growers and commercial
grain and livestock producers from three warehouse locations.
Its Wilson Creek site has a capacity of 1,300,000 bushels.
The Wye Station facility has a capacity of 540,000 bushels.
And the grain bins from the Stratford Station have a warehousing
capacity of 956,000 bushels.
The Wilson Creek, WA grain company is a member of the
Pacific Northwest Grain and Feed Association, which headquarters
in Portland, Oregon. The purpose of the organization is
to advance, protect and develop the common interests of
those engaged in the warehousing, processing and merchandising
of grain and related activities.
As members of the grain association and leaders in its
economic and geographic community, the grain warehouse
pledges to support the best interests of the country,
the public and all the levels of American agriculture
and the free enterprise system . Supporting a strong competitive
market is key. The company is dedicated to encouraging
and vigorously defending political and economic circumstances
which foster and encourage the viability, health and expansions
of free markets.
The grain warehouse complies with the laws and regulations
related to merchandising, inspection grading, weighing,
storing and handling and shipment.
Futures,
Options, Trading, Quotes
Available
on the web site are futures prices
through the Minneapolis Grain Exchange, its daily prices
and future prices. The MGE 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
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