Thanks to the tremendous effort of Foundation board member Dr. Bill Jepsen, the Oregon Wheat Foundation restarted the Oregon Wheat baking contest in 2025 in five counties: Gilliam, Morrow, Sherman, Umatilla, and Wasco. With 74 entries, competition was fierce in some counties! We congratulate the winners and all the entrants for their participation. 2025 Baking…
2025 Wheat Scholarship Essay: Tanner Rovey
Twenty years ago in 2005 my parents began farming wheat in the Grande Ronde valley of Oregon. It is a crop planted annually here as both winter and spring varieties to serve as a rotation between crops like sugar beets, sunflowers, and planting seed crops such as potatoes, triticale, teff, canola, and kidney beans. Wheat…
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