Challenge Yourself this New Year to Enter the 2021 National Festival of Breads

January 12, 2021 Julia Debes for Kansas Wheat

Looking for a creative challenge to start 2021? Brush off your mixer, don your apron and develop your own original recipe for the 2021 National Festival of Breads. Entries are accepted January 8 through February 22, and winners will receive cash prizes and baking bundles from sponsors Kansas Wheat, King Arthur Baking Company and Red Star Yeast.

Will You Be America’s Next Top Bread Baker?

December 18, 2020 Kansas Wheat

The holidays are the perfect time to turn pandemic baking projects into entries for the 2021 National Festival of Breads. The event is going virtual for 2021, further expanding the opportunities to compete in the premiere yeast bread baking contest for youth and adults. Winners will receive cash prizes and baking bundles from the event’s sponsors: Kansas Wheat, King Arthur Baking Company and Red Star Yeast.

Kansas Hard White Wheat Demonstrates Good Quality and Outlook, Despite Limited 2020 Production

October 30, 2020 Julia Debes, Kansas Wheat

The Kansas hard white (HW) wheat crop is exhibiting good milling and baking quality, even though production was down in 2020, according to the annual Crop Quality Report published by U.S. Wheat Associates (USW).

Industry Organizations to Host HRW Virtual Wheat Tour

May 7, 2020 Kansas Wheat

This tour, held for the past 50 years by the Wheat Quality Council, aims to give a snapshot in time of the crop to those who attend, including international buyers, wheat farmers, flour millers and others in the wheat industry. For many, this tour is their first time to step foot in a wheat field.

Kansas Wheat Tour: Day 1 Wrap-Up

May 1, 2019 Kansas Wheat

More than 75 people from 25 U.S. states and 3 other countries traveled on six routes between Manhattan and Colby, Kan., Tuesday, stopping at wheat fields every 15-20 miles along the routes, as part of the Wheat Quality Council’s 2019 Hard Winter Wheat Tour.