June 9, Fort Collins, Colo. – The Colorado Wheat Administrative Committee (CWAC) and the Colorado Association of Wheat Growers (CAWG) will host the Gardner Wheat Tour on Saturday, June 18, 2011. The wheat tour will include events in three locations, and is an opportunity for wheat producers to meet and talk with U.S. Congressman Cory Gardner.
Gardner’s large Fourth Congressional District includes 17 major winter wheat producing counties on the Eastern Plains. In 2010, the district accounted for 93 percent of Colorado’s total wheat production, valued at an estimated $565.4 million.
Colorado wheat producers are invited to attend and participate in the following events scheduled on Saturday, June 18.
A lunch program with Adams, Weld, and Morgan County area wheat producers will begin at 11:45 a.m. at Cooksey Farms located near Roggen (8 miles east of Prospect Valley on Hwy 52). Please RSVP by calling the wheat office at 1-800-WHEAT-10 or Jerry Cooksey at 970-381-7226.
A tour and briefing with Washington and Yuma County area wheat producers will begin at 3:00 p.m. at the Central Great Plains Research Station at Akron. No RSVP required.
A dinner program with Phillips and Logan County area wheat producers will begin at 6:30 p.m. at the Haxtun Community Center, 125 East Wilson Street, Haxtun. Please RSVP by calling the wheat office at 1-800-WHEAT-10.
For more information about the Gardner Wheat Tour please call 1-800-WHEAT-10, or visit www.coloradowheat.org.
CWAC and CAWG are two distinctly separate organizations with different, but complimentary purposes. CWAC is the producer-elected Board of Control for the Colorado Wheat Marketing Order whose purpose is to decide how assessment funds are to be spent for research, promotion and education activities. CAWG is a voluntary membership association that lobbies on behalf of wheat growers at the state and national levels of government and provides special programs and benefits to dues paying members.
