Hi Susan, 

For non-organic wheat, glyphosate is federally approved for use by farmers. Any application must comply with its regulatory approval, and, if used, residual glyphosate levels in wheat should remain well below the federally mandated level. 

We also continue to offer and support our full line of certified 100% organic flours, where the use of glyphosate is prohibited. In addition to this, we’ve recently partnered with Clif Bar to fund organic grain research at Washington State University’s Bread Lab in order to further the development of organic agriculture. We’re not stopping there, though, and you can be sure that we’ll continue to work with our supply chain, from farmer to mill to bag, to ensure we’re offering the best products we can to our customers.

We’re particularly proud of innovations we’ve brought to our non-organic Golden Wheat Flour, which is the first product in our Field-to-Flour program. As part of this program, we’ve been able to introduce steps which allow traceability of the wheat back to the farm it’s sourced from and set specific guidelines around crop management. This includes not permitting the use of glyphosate as a pre-harvest application on the white spring wheat it’s milled from.

And we are committed to sourcing all regeneratively grown wheat by 2030.  As an example, our new Climate Blend Flour bares the Regenefied Certification, which requires farmers to reduce the number of herbicides they are using and then during the 21 days prior to harvest there are no chemicals applied. It’s not organic, but we are making sure there is a significant reduction in herbicides used on these wheats.

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