date:Feb 17, 2014
Japan's Ministry of Agriculture isseeking to buy a total of 42,908 tonnes of June-loading CanadianWestern Red Spring wheat in atypical tender to meet demand fromJapanese millers, a farm ministry official said on Friday.
The tender follows its purchase of 286,091 tonnes of foodwheat from the United States, Canada and Australia in a regulartender that closed on Friday.
Japan, the world's sixth-biggest wheat importer, typicallybuys about 20,000-30,000 tonnes each of the five grades of foodqualit