Indonesia bought a record 5.31 million tonnes of wheat from Australia last season more than a million tonnes up on its previous annual purchase record set in 2011-12. But according to CBH Group marketing and trading general manager Jason Craig, Australia will need to keep expanding sales to its biggest customer by 5 per cent a year in order to fend off competition from Black Sea wheat sellers, Russia and the Ukraine. Despite a record 35 million tonne wheat crop last season, exporters shipped just 22.61 million tonnes of the grain out of Australia, according to data The Weekly Times obtained from the Australian Bureau of Statistics. Dry conditions became apparent on the east coast of Australia by the middle of this year, grain stocks were held back for the domestic market at a premium to the export