Gardner Wheat Tour Scheduled for June 28

June 10, 2014, Fort Collins, Colo. – The Colorado Association of Wheat Growers (CAWG) and the Colorado Wheat Administrative Committee (CWAC) will host the fourth annual Gardner Wheat Tour on Saturday, June 28, 2014.  The wheat tour will include events in Adams and Morgan counties, and is an opportunity for wheat farmers to meet and talk with U.S. Congressman Cory Gardner (R-4th).

Gardner’s large Fourth Congressional District includes 17 major winter wheat producing counties on the Eastern Plains.

“The wheat tour gives the Congressman a chance to visit specifically with wheat farmers,” said CAWG President Mark Linnebur, “And hear about issues they are facing on their farms, from water issues to the EPA and oil and gas.”

“Although the Farm Bill has been passed,” Linnebur said, “There are still many bills before Congress that are important to wheat farmers.”

Colorado wheat producers are invited to attend and participate in the following events scheduled on Saturday, June 28:

A lunch program with Morgan County area wheat farmers will begin at 12:00 p.m. at the Wickstrom farm, 33052 Road 3, Orchard, located north of Orchard on County Road 2 and 1 mile east on Road HH. Please RSVP by calling the wheat office at 1-800-WHEAT-10 or 970-449-6994.

A dinner program with Weld and Adams County area wheat producers will begin at 6:00 p.m. at the Linnebur farm, 1150 N. County Road 225, 13 miles east of Byers on Highway 36 and then 1/2 mile south. Please RSVP by calling the wheat office at 1-800-WHEAT-10 or 970-449-6994.

Gardner will also tour Morgan, Weld and Adams county wheat fields.

The first wheat tour with the Fourth District representative was in 1991, with Wayne Allard (R, 1991-1997), and the tradition continued with wheat tours for Bob Schaffer (R, 1997-2003), Marilyn Musgrave (R, 2003-2009), Betsy Markey (D, 2009-2011), and now Congressman Gardner.

For more information about the Gardner Wheat Tour please call 1-800-WHEAT-10, or visit www.coloradowheat.org. CAWG and CWAC are two distinctly separate organizations with different, but complimentary purposes. 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. 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.

gardner wheat tour 2013

Congressman Cory Gardner (R.-4th) visits the Bill and Brian Brooks farm near Walsh on the 2013 Wheat Tour. This was an irrigated wheat field that experienced freeze damage in April and was expected to suffer yield reduction. Left to right: Wheat farmer and CAWG member Terry Swanson, Walsh, CAWG board member Brian Brooks, Walsh, 2013 CWAC President Sara Olsen, Yuma, Congressman Gardner, 2013 CAWG Vice President Randy Traxler, Otis, and 2013 CWAC Vice President Steve Beedy, Genoa.

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