This article has been reprinted from the Jan. 16 USDA Grain Transportation Report.
For the week ending January 9, 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 up 6 percent from the previous week, down 22 percent from last year and 4 percent below the 3-year average.
Inspections of wheat jumped 30 percent from week to week, primarily because of increased shipments to Asia and Latin America.
Soybean inspections increased 9 percent from the past week, but inspections of corn decreased 16 percent.
Pacific Northwest (PNW) grain inspections increased 6 percent from the previous week, and Mississippi Gulf inspections increased 16 percent.