Inspections of corn for export increased last week, while evaluations of beans and wheat fell, according to data from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Corn inspections in the seven days ended March 2 rose to 899,810 metric tons, the agency said in a report. This is up from 649,303 mt a week ago, but well below the 1.58 million mt examined in the same week a year ago. Soybean assessments last week were reported at 542,238 metric tons, down from 765,215 tons the previous week and the 771,956 tons inspected a year earlier, the government said. Wheat inspections came in at 268,136 tonnes swt, well down from 653,283 tonnes swt a week ago and 403,187 tonnes swt a year ago. Since the beginning of the business year on September 1, the USDA has inspected 15.3 million metric tons of corn for overseas delivery.
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This is down from 24.8 million tonnes during the same period a year ago. Soybean inspections since early September are now at 42.7 million tonnes, up from 41.5 million tonnes in the same period last year, the agency said. Wheat valuations since the beginning of the grain's marketing year on June 1 are at 15.6 million metric tons, well down from the 15.9 million tons examined in the same period last year, the USDA said in its report. . Winter weather continues to rear its ugly head in parts of the Dakotas as winter storm ...
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