SEATTLE — Japan will resume buying a type of U.S. wheat that it had suspended May 30 after genetically modified wheat was found in a field in Oregon.
The type of wheat, soft white, is grown predominantly in the Pacific Northwest, and farmers here worried about what to grow next year if Japan did not resume buying. Japan buys about $1 billion in wheat each year from the U.S.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture said in mid-June that the genetically modified wheat in Oregon appeared to be an isolated incident.
