This article has been reprinted from the Aug. 1 USDA Grain Transportation Report.
For the week ending July 25, total inspections of grain (corn, wheat, and soybeans) for export from all major U.S. export regions reached 2.13 million metric tons (mmt).
This amount is up 43 percent from the previous week, down 27 percent from last year, and 11 percent below the 3-year average.
The rebound in inspections was caused by a 47 percent increase in corn inspections and an 84 percent jump in soybean inspections.
The inspection increases were primarily for grain destined to Asia.
Soybean inspections reached 1.09 mmt, the highest since the third week of February.
Wheat inspections were down 13 percent from week to week. Inspections of grain increased in the Pacific Northwest (PNW) and the Mississippi Gulf by 50 percent and 110 percent, respectively, from the previous week.