This article has been reprinted from the June 13 USDA Grain Transportation Report.
For the week ending June 6, total inspections of grain (corn, wheat, and soybeans) for export from all major U.S. export regions reached 2.08 million metric tons (mmt).
This amount indicates a 10 percent increase from the previous week, an 18 percent drop from last year, and a 6 percent decrease from the 3-year average.
Soybean inspections jumped 40 percent from the previous week, and were the highest since late March of this year.
Shipments of soybeans to China increased 20 percent from week to week.
Corn inspections increased 14 percent for the same period, but wheat inspections decreased 22 percent from the past week.
Pacific Northwest (PNW) inspections increased 20 percent from the previous week, while inspections in the Mississippi Gulf increased 8 percent.