This month we profile our longest-serving staff member at the Wheat Marketing Center – Bon Lee, Operations Manager. Known around the world for his crop quality expertise and for wearing different color shoes, Bon is the miller, baker, CQ director, and equipment maintenance guy. He and his team recently completed the annual crop quality survey for soft white and hard white wheat; producing the Pacific Northwest Soft White Wheat Quality Report and providing data for the U.S. Wheat Associates Crop Quality Report. Bon also oversees all milling and quality testing in support of WMC’s technical training courses, research projects and WMC Lab Services proprietary business.
Bon’s expertise and institutional knowledge developed over the past 22+ years provide great value to the Wheat Marketing Center and to the U.S. wheat industry. He speaks fluent Japanese and limited Korean and is well-known to customers throughout Asia. Bon looks forward to welcoming trade teams and technical groups to WMC when circumstances allow.