Steve Beedy farms in east central Colorado at an elevation of 5500 feet, 17 miles northeast of Limon, CO. He is the fourth generation on the farm that his great grandfather homesteaded 125 years ago. Together with his parents and brother, Steve farms over 6,000 acres of dryland Hard Red Winter and Hard White Wheat, corn, oil sunflowers, plus a 200 head cow/calf operation. They have changed from a conventional tillage wheat/fallow operation in the 1980’s to a no-till operation, which produces a crop two out of three years. Steve graduated from Colorado State University in 1987 with a degree in Farm and Ranch management. He has been involved in Colorado Wheat organizations for more than 20 years.
Steve first served on the WMC Board in 2001 for two years; he returned to the board in 2013. He has watched WMC go through a great transformation from an old mill to a research and training facility that can now perform a full range of quality testing and make all kinds of wheat products. WMC has professional staff who are respected world wide. Steve believes the Wheat Marketing Center has played and will continue to play a vital role in promoting U.S. wheat in the domestic and foreign markets by showing techniques for utilizing quality U.S. wheat. Although little Colorado wheat goes through PNW ports, WMC still educates consumers and customers about wheat classes grown in our region.