7-18 FB Wheat Research

 Research funding for wheat. The Idaho wheat commission spends a lot of money on wheat research at the University of Idaho among other places. Here is Blaine Jacobson, executive director of the Idaho wheat commission to explain: “The Post Falls meeting was our annual budget meeting. We approved our annual budget for the year, 2.2 million dollars, as we continue to put huge amounts of grower dollars towards  wheat research. The bulk of it is done through the University of Idaho. We do a little bit of other research some of it at the marketing center in Portland, OR. We have a contract where the PNW states, Washington, Oregon and Idaho jointly throw their dollars together to do some research through ARS in Pullman and so there are a few other projects but the bulk of it goes to the University of Idaho. We’ve increased our research budget yet again and part of that is due to University of Idaho’s wheat projects being cut back in the general fund and so that means that the wheat growers have to pay a little bit more to keep those programs going. The researchers will put their proposal together and they will run it past their peers and their peers will sign off on it and vote wheat commission conducts an annual research review in February of each year.