This article has been reprinted from the March 28 USDA Grain Transportation Report.
For the week ending March 21, total inspections of grain (corn, wheat, and soybeans) for export from all major U.S. export regions reached 2.24 million metric tons (mmt).
This is a 7 percent increase from the previous week, an 8 percent decrease from last year, and is 10 percent below the 3-year average.
Total grain inspections increased as corn inspections jumped 24 percent from the previous week.
Shipments of corn rebounded to Latin America and Asia. Soybean inspections increased 1 percent from week-to-week, but inspections of wheat decreased 12 percent, for the same period.
Grain inspections in the Mississippi Gulf increased 16 percent from the past week, while Pacific Northwest (PNW) inspections increased 2 percent.