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Rolling the Dough At the Commodity Classic- The Oklahoma Wheat Commission
Mon, 02 Mar 2009 6:26:11 CST
It was a big hit at the 2009 Commodity Classic- the baking of Cinnamon Rolls and Bread in the Oven owned by the Oklahoma Wheat Commission. Since the days of Wheat Commissioner Henry Jo Von Tunglen, who initially baked loaves of bread for legislators and other VIPs in his home in Canadian County to now- the Oklahoma Wheat Commission has taken their bread baking efforts to national farm meetings, to New York City in a lower Manhattan exhibit this past year to dozens and dozens of events that take place inside the state.
Jeff Krehbiel says the National Association of Wheat Growers helped with the costs to have the Wheat Commission bring the oven and facilities on the road to Grapevine, Texas and the 2009 Commodity Classic, with more than 4,500 in attendance. The Chairman of the Wheat Commission says they served more than 8,000 pieces of Cinnamon Rolls to Classic attendees, as well as a lot of slices of bread, and had the chance to talk with a lot of folks about wheat promotion efforts as a result.
We spent a few minutes with Jeff between batches of the baking efforts- and talked about the exhibit, as well as the continuing search of the Commission for a new Executive Director- it appears that interviews will be happening when all the Commissioners can get together at one time in mid March- and finally, we talked about the condition of the 2009 winter wheat crop here in the state of Oklahoma.
Click on the listen bar below for our conversation with Jeff Krehbiel, Chairman of the Oklahoma Wheat Commission.
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