date:Jun 17, 2013
wo weeks ago, according to a USDA market report.
Japan, the world's sixth-biggest importer of wheat, bought U.S. feed wheat in a tender on Friday and food wheat from the United States and other suppliers on Thursday. Yet it refrained from taking any of the U.S. western white wheat variety that grows in the Pacific Northwest.
In the week ended June 6, the first full reporting period since the Oregon discovery was announced, net export sales for U.S. white wheat were just 4,477 metric tons. That