Posted on 01/13/2005 3:09:28 PM PST by SunkenCiv
European traders said... Iraq's Grain Board had purchased about 300,000 tonnes of US hard red winter wheat in a tender. If confirmed, it would be one of the single largest sales of wheat to Iraq in recent years... In the 1980s and 1990s the US was a major supplier of wheat to Iraq, but since then Australia has stepped in as the primary supplier of wheat bought by Baghdad. The US Department of Agriculture estimates that Iraq will buy around 2.6 million tonnes of wheat this year. Another US source puts the figure at around 3 million tonnes.
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U.S. Heartland Is Bursting with Corn, Soyfrom Reuters | Sun Nov 21, 9:53 AM ET
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Hmm... "No War for Wheat (market)!"
ANWR is in an interesting keyword.
Gotta drill it. :')
I hear most Iraqis are cereal killers. Get it?!?!
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Posted on 01/13/2005 6:44:20 PM PST by SunkenCiv
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