U.S. Agriculture Chief Predicts Return of Wheat Exports to Japan

Japan, which stopped buying some U.S. wheat after a genetically modified variety was discovered in an Oregon field, may resume purchases as soon as next month, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said.

“We’ve come a long way in terms of the Ministry of Agriculture in Japan to reassure them,” Vilsack said yesterday in an interview with Peter Cook on Bloomberg Television’s “Capitol Gains” to air July 28. “I think that hopefully they’re getting their questions answered and that sometime, perhaps as early as August, we would see a resumption.”