Weekly corn, soybean inspections continue to outpace year-ago

Weekly corn and soybean inspections are running 10.8% and 8.7% ahead of a year-ago, respectively. Meanwhile, wheat inspections are nearly 29% behind the same time last year.

USDA Weekly Export Sales Report
USDA Weekly Export Sales Report
(Pro Farmer)

USDA’s Weekly Grain Export Inspections

Week Ended Sept. 28, 2023

Corn

Actual (MT)

625,870

Expectations (MT)

500,000-850,000

Comments

Export inspections are down 84,735 MT from last week’s tally. Inspections are running 10.8% ahead of a year ago, compared to 15.6% ahead last week. USDA projects exports in 2023-24 at 2.050 billion bu., 23.0% above the previous marketing year.

Wheat

Actual (MT)

397,594

Expectations (MT)

300,000-550,000

Comments

Export inspections are down 88,118 MT from the previous week’s figure. Shipments are running 28.8% behind a year-ago, compared to 28.3% last week. USDA projects exports in 2023-24 at 700 million bu., down 7.8% from the previous marketing year.

Soybeans

Actual (MT)

663,355

Expectations (MT)

350,000-750,000

Comments

Export inspections are up 155,725 MT from last week’s tally. Inspections are running 8.7% ahead of a year ago, compared to 6.5% ahead last week. USDA’s 2023-24 export forecast of 1.790 billion bu., which is 10.1% below 2023-22.