Global export sales: Corn misses the mark

USDA’s latest grain export sales report, released Thursday morning and covering the week through September 29, didn’t have much bullish data for traders to digest. Soybeans fared the best, staying near the middle of analyst estimates. Wheat volume slumped to the lower end of trade guesses, meantime, while corn failed to make it to the range of guesses entirely. Corn sales only reached 8.9 million bushels last week. That was below the entire range of trade guesses, which came in between 13.8 million and 31.5 million bushels. Cumulative totals for the 2022/23 marketing year are moderately below last year’s pace so far, with 88.5 million bushels. Corn export shipments were more robust, with 25.4 million bushels. China accounted for more than half of that total, with 16.6 million bushels. Mexico, Guatemala, Canada and Jamaica rounded out the top five. No sorghum export sales were reported last week, although a modest shipment was sent to Mexico. Cumulative totals for the 2022/23 ...