Corn sales during the week ended Oct. 24 declined 35% from the previous week to 2.34 MMT, while wheat sales dropped 23%. Meanwhile, soybean sales rose modestly on the week to 2.27 MMT.
Despite falling 155,000 MT from the previous week, soybean inspections remained strong during the week ended Oct. 24, landing near the top-end of analysts’ pre-report expectations. Corn and wheat inspections also declined and were near low-end estimates.
Pre-report expectations ranging from 2.2 MMT to 3.3 MMT indicated analysts expected huge corn sales during the week ended Oct. 17, though net sales topped the range by 300,000 MT. Soybean sales were also notable at 2.15 MMT.
Weekly corn and soybean inspections during the week ended Oct. 17 rose solidly from the previous week, each landing near the upper-end of pre-report expectations. Wheat inspections declined over 100,000 MT, missing analysts’ range of expectations.
Corn sales during the week ended Oct 10, rose 82% from the previous week and noticeably from the four-week average. Soybean sales were also notable at 1.70 MMT, rising 35% on the week.
Corn inspections during the week ended Oct. 10 totaled 430,323 MT, down 518,000 MT from the previous week and well below the pre-report range.
On average, analysts expected a modest decline in corn yield from September, though USDA increased the figure 0.2 bu., with production now estimated at 15.203 billion bu. Soybean production was pegged at 4.582 billion bu., using a yield of 53.1 bu. per acre.
Corn and soybean sales during the week ended Oct. 3 totaled 1.222 MMT and 1.264 MMT, respectively.
During the week ended Oct. 3, soybean inspections totaled a notable 1.431 MMT, jumping nearly 750,000 MT from the previous week and exceeding pre-report expectations.
Corn sales during the week ended Sept. 26 exceeded pre-report estimates by nearly 700,000 MT, while wheat sales were also stronger than expected. Soybean sales were also solid at 1.44 MMT.

Hillari Mason