This has been reprinted from the Jan. 30 USDA Grain Transportation Report.
For the week ending January 23, total inspections of grain (corn, wheat, and soybeans) for export from all major U.S. export regions reached 2 million metric tons (mmt).
Total grain inspections were down 10 percent from the previous week, down 15 percent from last year, and 14 percent below the 3-year average.
The week-to-week drop in total inspections was driven by a 57-percent decrease in inspections of wheat and a 14-percent decrease in soybean inspections.
Despite the drop in total inspections, corn inspections jumped 69 percent from the previous week to their highest level since mid-December 2019—mainly because of higher corn shipments to Latin America.
Pacific Northwest (PNW) grain inspections decreased 40 percent from the previous week, but Mississippi Gulf inspections increased 21 percent for the same period.