President ensures food supply is ‘secure’ despite COVID-19 pandemic.

It is dipping into wheat reserves to increase supply for flour millers during COVID-19 crisis.

Deal will save the cash-strapped nation millions of dollars.

Equipment selection must include maintenance considerations.

COVID-19 causing decline in wheat-based food consumption, USDA report says.

Imports down 13%.

Revered as a “true friend of the wheat industry”

Report attributes increase to lower production costs and higher domestic prices.

Company had partially closed the Italian facility in mid-March due to COVID-19 pandemic.