Wednesday, November 30, 2005

U.S. wheat exports compete with Austrailia for Iraq market

From the Herald Sun - Iraq buys 1m tonnes US wheat
EXPORTERS reported the sale of 200,000 tonnes of US wheat to Iraq today, boosting US sales to Iraqi to 1 million tonnes of hard red winter wheat this month. Along with the latest sale, Iraq bought 800,000 tonnes of US HRW wheat on November 4. Australia was the dominant wheat supplier to Iraq for years but US sales have climbed sharply in recent months.

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