1.   -- A three-year agreement to purchase French wheat.

2.   On numerous occasions since the attack, politicians have asked domestic wheat growers for understanding as they purchased Asian wheat for rapid food shipments to Afghanistan.

3.   Wheat could slide if Egypt purchases French wheat over U.S. supplies.

4.   Wheat prices surged to a five-month high amid speculation China wants to purchase more wheat from the U.S.

5.   So did news that Indonesia had purchased Chinese wheat, bypassing the U.S. product.

6.   Under the program, Chinese buyers purchase the wheat through normal commercial channels at world prices, normally lower than the U.S. price.

7.   Wheat futures were pressured by news that Iraq had purchased wheat from U.S. competitors and ahead of active harvesting this weekend of the winter wheat crop.

8.   However, he cautioned prices would be slightly higher than officially fixed rates because the mills purchased wheat from private sources at a higher price.

9.   Elsewhere, the French government announced that China would again purchase French wheat.