The Colorado Association of Wheat Growers will team up with the Colorado Wheat Administrative Committee again on June 28 for special wheat tour featuring U.S. Congressman Cory Gardner.

This is the fourth annual Legislator Tour for the wheat producers in Colorado will include events in both Adams and Morgan counties, and is considered to be an opportunity for growers to meet and talk with the congressmen from their state.

Earlier tours featured other legislators.

Gardner's large forth congressional district includes 17 major wheat producing counties on the eastern plains.

Upcoming Colorado wheat tour guest Congressman Cory Gardner, blue shirt, visits with wheat producers, from left, Terry Swanson, Brian Brooks, CWAC President Sara Olsen, Randy Traxler and Steve Beedy.

"The wheat tour gives the Congressman a chance to visit specifically with wheat farmers," says CAWG President Mark Linnebur, "and to hear about issues they are facing on their farms, from water issues to EPA and oil and gas."

Although the U.S. Farm Bill is now passed into law, "there are still many bills before Congress that are important to wheat farmers," adds Linnebur.

Colorado wheat producers are invited to attend and participate in the following events set for June 28:

•A lunch program with Morgan County area wheat farmers will begin at noon at the Wickstrom farm, located at 33052 Road 3, Orchard, Colo. The farm is located a mile north of Orchard on County Road 2 and one mile east of Road HH. Reservations are requested by calling the Colorado wheat office at 1-800-WHEAT-10, OR 1-970-449-6994.

•A dinner program with Weld and Adams counties area wheat producers will begin at 6 p.m. at Linnebur's farm, 1150 N. County Road 225, 13 miles east of Byers, Colo., on Highway 36, and a half mile south. Please reserve at the phone numbers listed above.

•Gardner will also tour Morgan, Weld and Adams counties wheat fields.

For online information on the tours,  go to www.coloradowheat.org or call the numbers above.