County Wheat Meetings Scheduled

January 3, 2003

Colorado wheat producers are invited to attend and participate in a business meeting and elections jointly sponsored by the Colorado Wheat Administrative Committee (CWAC) and the Colorado Association of Wheat Growers (CAWG). The business meetings and elections will be held January 6-17 at 14 different sites in Colorado. The business meeting for Kiowa County wheat producers will be held at Our Place Restaurant in Eads at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, January 7.

CWAC President Dan Anderson of Haxtun and CAWG President Brad Ivey of Wiley will discuss the various programs being conducted by each respective organization; and CWAC/CAWG Executive Director Darrell Hanavan will review the current U.S. and world wheat situation.

CWAC and CAWG are two distinctly separate organizations with different, but complimentary purposes:

•CWAC is a marketing order funded by a producer approved assessment of one cent per bushel which is used for education, research and promotion programs to increase the consumption and utilization of Colorado produced wheat; and

•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, such as a workers’ compensation insurance program to save premium dollars.