Canada wheat exports surge with better crop, weather

Canada's wheat exports have bounced back strongly with bigger and better 2011/12 supplies from a year earlier and near-ideal weather for moving grains by rail from the Prairies to ports.A larger crop last autumn, with typical quantities of top-quality grades after a sub-par previous harvest, stoked the appetite of Canada's biggest export buyers of spring wheat, used mainly for baking.
Mills in top buyer Mexico bought more than twice as much Canadian wheat - over 900,000 tonnes - from August through April, while the United States and Japan imported 41 percent and 31 percent bigger volumes respectively, Canadian Grain Commission data shows.