Total Grain Inspections Down 19% From Week Ended Dec. 12; Down 9% From 2018

This article has been reprinted from the Dec. 26 USDA Grain Transportation Report.

For the week ending December 19, total inspections of grain (corn, wheat, and soybeans) for export from all major U.S. export regions reached 2.1 million metric tons (mmt).

Total grain inspections were down 19 percent from the previous week, down 9 percent from last year, and down 26 percent from the 3-year average.

Total inspections for corn and soybeans were down 45 and 19 percent, respectively, from the previous week.

However, wheat inspections increased 13 percent from week to week.

Grain inspections in the Pacific Northwest (PNW) decreased 24 percent from the past week, and Mississippi Gulf inspections decreased 19 percent.