Wheat
Crisis Gaining National Media Attention
ABA has recently been featured on several news stations to discuss the wheat crisis and the impact it's having on the baking industry.
- The Band of Baker's voice heard loud and clear! The March on Washington press conference gets nationwide coverage including the attention of Katie Couric who reported on the CBS News Money Watch program - "OUCH! Feeding the Family is Taking a Bigger and Bigger Bite Out of Your Budget." Click here...
- ABA President & CEO
Robb MacKie Interviewed
by Orion Samuelson - the "#1 Agricultural Broadcaster
in the Country." Featured on WGN
Radio 720 and the RFD TV Channel on Direct TV
and Dish TV this past Saturday.
Click
here...
- "Higher Prices May
Give Wheat the Respect It Really Deserves" - ABA Member Hayden
Wands, Director of Procurement, Sara Lee Food & Beverage,
was quoted in the High Plains / Midwest Ag Journal
article -See what he and other baking industry
professionals have to say about the impact of higher
wheat prices on the bread business. Click
here.
- ABA President & CEO
Robb MacKie is quoted in Feedstuffs article, " Wheat
Growers Say Embargo Will Do More Harm Than Help"
- TV's CNBC's "Closing
Bell" - ABA
President & CEO Robb MacKie discusses the industry crisis stemming
from the decreasing wheat supply and increasing costs
being faced by bakers. See
the clip here.
- Fox Business
News - ABA President & CEO
Robb MacKie, Undersecretary of Agriculture Mark
Keenum,
and Fox's Rich Edson and are featured on this segment
- "Farm
Subsidies Draw Crticism as Wheat Soars to Record
Highs." See
the clip here.
- "Wheat
Supply at Its Lowest in 60 Years - Impacting
America's 'Bread Basket'" - This video is a must-see!
Check out a clip from CNN's
Glenn Beck show featuring a segment regarding the current
state of wheat supplies and its impact on the U.S.
need to begin importing wheat and how it will ultimately
impact the consumer. Click here...
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