U.S. foes cast aside politics to buy grains

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Source: reuters




U.S. foes cast aside politics to buy grains

By K.T. Arasu 43 minutes ago

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Iran may be dueling with Washington over its nuclear ambitions, but when the country desperately needed corn last month, it turned to the United States.
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Nations like Iran, Venezuela, Syria and Cuba have icy diplomatic ties with Washington but they do not let politics stand in the way of importing competitively-priced food or feed ingredients from the United States.

The world's largest exporter of corn, soybeans and wheat, the United States ships its agricultural commodities across the globe, to friends and foes from Spain to Iraq to Sudan.

"They want to make sure they feed their people. They don't want to screw with that. Politics is politics," said veteran grains analyst Don Roose of brokerage U.S. Commodities.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070913/ts_nm/grains_usa_exports_dc;_ylt=Ah4mfP5T2UALFgBREJfbvWqs0NUE

[madrchsod]

1. gee like nobody knew about that...

we have been "trading with the enemy" for years...even a rabid republican in the corn belt will sell to the enemy if the check does`t bounce

[TwilightGardener]

3. Well, I think it would be kind of immoral to deny grain exportation

and thus cause supply shortages, increased prices and hunger/malnutrition, no matter what the political picture looks like.

[hogwyld]

2. With the loss of all of our manufacturing jobs

The only 2 things we can export are agricultural products, and raw materials to China. Once global warming wipes out our breadbasket, we'll be back to 3rd world status...