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Page 1: Improve Wheat Farmers’ Profits & Move US Wheat Industry Upward By Jim Palmer, NAWG CEO & NWF Exec. Director.

Improve Wheat Farmers’ Profits & Move US Wheat Industry Upward

By Jim Palmer, NAWG CEO

& NWF Exec. Director

Page 2: Improve Wheat Farmers’ Profits & Move US Wheat Industry Upward By Jim Palmer, NAWG CEO & NWF Exec. Director.
Page 3: 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

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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

Page 5: Improve Wheat Farmers’ Profits & Move US Wheat Industry Upward By Jim Palmer, NAWG CEO & NWF Exec. Director.

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

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Start Efforts to get +15% yield by 2025

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Investment & Innovation

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Risk Management Programs

• Goal: Protect and Improve crop insurance programs – Maintain &

Increase Coverage

– Risk Management Tools

– Flexibility

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Risk Management Programs

• Goal: Improve U.S. transportation infrastructure – Rail access, rates,

and service– Waterways– Roadway farm to

market interstate/intrastate

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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

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Industry Coordination

Timing is everything. When biotech wheat is ready, the entire industry needs to be ready.

Wheat Innovation Alliance

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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

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THE PURPOSE OF NAWG FOUNDATION

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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

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Our Goal

New strategic direction to add value to state and national wheat grower

organizations by enhancing impact and increasing influence

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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

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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

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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]