Export sales in United States: Corn, soybean sales disappoint

The latest set of export sales data from USDA, out Thursday morning and covering the week through June 23, held most disappointing numbers for traders to digest. Old crop corn and soybean sales were especially dismal - each crop spilled to a marketing-year low. Wheat sales were more encouraging after moving to the higher end of analyst estimates this past week. Old crop corn sales fell to a marketing-year low of 3.5 million bushels. New crop sales only contributed another 4.7 million bushels, for a total of 8.2 million bushels. That was below the entire range of trade guesses, which came in between 11.8 million and 47.2 million bushels. Cumulative totals for the 2021/22 marketing year remain moderately behind last year’s pace, with 2.026 billion bushels. Corn export shipments fared much better, moving 9% higher week-over-week but fading 9% below the prior four-week average to 49.4 million bushels. Japan was the No. 1 destination, with 16.8 million bushels. Mexico, China, South ...