Beef production dropped 16 percent, pork was off 10 percent, and milk production fell 4 percent, but by the end of the year the Soviets had apparently obtained their needed grain from other sources. The two nations then signed a new 5 Year agreement in 1983 that obliged the Soviet Union to import a minimum of 9 million tons of U.S. grain every year. The U.S. is the world's principal exporter of agricultural products. A substantial percentage of the wheat, soybeans, rice, cotton, tobacco, and corn for grain produced in the U.S. Is exported. The major foreign markets are Asia, Western Europe, and Latin America.
Japan heads the list of individual countries that import U.S. farm products.