Wheat Montana Wye (2024)

FAQs

Is Wheat Montana still in business? ›

Today, Wheat Montana — along with recently-acquired sister company Stone Ground Bakery in Utah — is owned by Tilia Holdings Company, based in Chicago, Illinois, who continues to strive to offer high-quality, delicious products to customers throughout the United States.

It is very versatile for baking and is a choice wheat for Asian noodles, hard rolls, flatbreads and general use flour. Hard Red Spring Wheat – Commonly grown in Montana and the Dakotas. It is most often used for “designer” wheat foods such as rolls, croissants, bagels and pizza crust.

ABOUT WHEAT MONTANA FARMS

The operations encompass almost 10,000 acres of the most productive soil in Montana. At 5,000 feet above sea level, it is also the highest elevation grain is grown in North America.

The aroma of freshly baked goods and a friendly staff set the stage for what is in store for the thirsty or hungry among you. Whether you're interested in flour, bread, specialty grains, bakery items, flat-out good coffee, or a homemade deli sandwich, we know you're going to taste the difference.

North Dakota is ranked as the top producer of wheat in the USA. The states possess great climatic conditions and diversity in crop production. It is one of the leading producers of sunflower and honey in America. North Dakota is rich in the plantations of carinata, fav beans, and hops, as well.

Upon graduation from college, Dale Folkvord's son, Dean Folkvord, took over the family business and in 1993, constructed the Wheat Montana Bakery. In 1996, Wheat Montana constructed a flour mill to become a full-scale milling and baking operation.

The states with the largest area planted to wheat in 2021 were: Kansas (7.3 million acres), North Dakota (6.5 million acres), Montana (5.5 million acres), Texas (5.5 million acres) and Oklahoma (4.4 million acres).

The leading crops are wheat, hay, barley, and sugar beets. The majority of agriculture takes place in the eastern half of the state, although livestock production is important in the mountain basins of the western half of the state. Most of the 2 million acres of irrigated land is devoted to the production of hay.

The lack of a developed market for alternative crops like sorghum, wheat and barley also can prevent large quantities from being produced in Iowa.

Stand-alone wheat with a yield of 80 bushels per acre has a $118 per acre returns, below both the returns for corn ($178 per acre) and soybeans ($243 per acre). For stand-alone wheat to have higher return than corn, wheat yield would have to exceed 91 bushels per acre.

What is the average bushel per acre for wheat in Montana? ›

The Montana Agricultural Statistics Service reported statewide winter wheat yields at 31 bushels per acre (bu/ac) for 2021, down 20 bu/ac from the 2020 season.

King Ranch, largest ranch in the United States, composed of a group of four tracts of land in southeastern Texas, totaling approximately 825,000 acres (333,800 hectares).

NON-GMO GRAINS • NO PRESERVATIVES • CLEAN LABEL

Our Flour is made from the highest quality wheat. Not only is packed with nutrients and bursting with flavor, it's ideal for all kinds of baking.

A very pure white color, which is very nice since the flour is neither bleached nor bromated. Flour will self-bleach if you just let it stand for a few weeks, but most millers don't take the time - a shot of bleach will clear up pesky colors.

The flour we use has one of the highest protein unbleached white flour available. This flour has 13.33% protein content.

Kyle and Kathy Nielsen are owner operators. Their three children now work alongside them. We surpass other companies' standard for freshness and flavor with our innovative hands-on processes.

Climate change-related events play an increasingly crucial role in food insecurity. In summer 2021, the world faced a wheat shortage due to heatwaves and droughts that hit the US and Canada, the second and third-largest wheat exporters after Russia.

The State of Montana inspects our farm, bins, warehouse, equipment, packaging, etc. and then gives it the Certified Organic label. WHEAT MONTANA DOES NOT USE G.M.O. (GENETICALLY MODIFIED) VARIETIES OF ANY KIND.

Montana is the only place that has commercial production of five of the six major classes of wheat grown in the U.S. – Hard Red Winter (HRW), Hard Red Spring (HRS), Hard White (HW), Durum, and Soft White (SW).