http://www.cattlenetwork.com/cattle-news/world/middle-east RSS Feed for Middle East en-us Wed, 27 Jul 2011 19:49:23 GMT http://www.cattlenetwork.com/cattle-news/world/middle-east/2010-Iowa-ag-exports-topped-7-billion--126273048.html Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Bill Northey and the Iowa Department of Economic Development (IDED) director, Debi Durham today announced that international demand remains strong for Iowa's agriculture products. They cited recently released numbers by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) showing that Iowa exported $7.04 billion in agricultural goods in fiscal year 2010. http://www.cattlenetwork.com/cattle-news/world/middle-east/Commodities-market-impact-weather-Favorable-heat-for-Midwest-124646954.html Favorable Midwest heat, light Northern Plains rainfall, a variable Delta and Southeast trend, dry and hot for wheat harvest, additional West Texas heat, mixed trends in the Canadian Prairies, a hotter trend in northern China, periods of rain in central China, hotter and drier in western Europe, rainy and cool in Ukraine and Russia, and an mixed monsoon rain pattern in India are the main weather items for the commodity trade's attention. http://www.cattlenetwork.com/cattle-news/world/middle-east/USMEF-Despite-political-unrest-beef-exports-to-Middle-East-remain-hot-121992049.html Last year, U.S. beef exports to the Middle East grew by more than one-third in volume and more than 75 percent in value – exceeding $260 million.