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Soybean export sales jump as grain barge traffic rebounds

USDA's weekly transportation data show stronger export demand, busier rail and barge movement and diesel prices more than $2.65 a gallon above a year ago.

Feed & Grain Staff

October 22, 2026

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USDA lifts corn cost forecast as fertilizer bills climb

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Illinois losses trim US corn crop as harvest lags

USDA trims corn crop, raises soybean exports in November WASDE

A lower corn yield cuts feed use and exports, while bigger soybean exports pull stocks down to 300 million bushels and wheat stocks rise slightly.

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Thermal Performance and Gearbox Selection for Grain Handling Applications

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SEW-EURODRIVE’s Austin Burdette discusses heat challenges in grain handling gearboxes and how proper thermal management can reduce downtime and extend equipment life.

Thermal Performance and Gearbox Selection for Grain Handling Applications

Grain Trade & Export

Lithuania to lab-test every Russian, Belarusian grain shipment

Starting Nov. 16, food grain moving through Lithuania won't clear customs until tests confirm its origin, a process officials say could take two months or longer at shippers' expense.

Grain Trade & Export

USW pitches US wheat blends to Brazilian millers at Abitrigo

With Brazil's wheat crop forecast to fall 22.5%, U.S. Wheat Associates urged millers to weigh the total value of a flour blend rather than wheat price alone.

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USDA FAS expects Canadian wheat crop to fall 9.6%

Canada's second-largest wheat crop on record comes with weaker grades, more feed wheat and exports unlikely to match last year's record.

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Association News

USGBC brings foreign wet millers to Illinois corn processing course

Starch processors from Latin America, the Middle East and Africa studied U.S. corn quality, grain sampling and wet milling technology during University of Illinois workshops.

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Grain Trade & Export

USTR extends suspension of China ship fees two more months

The two-month extension keeps port fees off Chinese-built and Chinese-operated vessels, a cost soybean and bulk grain exporters warned would land on farmers.

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Grain Trade & Export

Canada, China extend canola meal and pea tariff relief through 2028

The two-year extension keeps China's suspension of anti-discrimination tariffs on Canadian canola meal and peas in place past its original end-of-2026 expiration.

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Donau Soja sees EU soybean crop falling 20% after drought

Smaller European and Ukrainian harvests are tightening non-GM soybean supply and pushing prices for processors and feed manufacturers to their highest levels in three years.

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Rail fuel surcharges on grain hit record 76 cents per mile

November's Class I average is 231% above April's level, and federal forecasters expect diesel to ease but stay above $4 a gallon through 2027.

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US soybean shipments hit marketing-year high as China buys

Weekly soybean exports topped 2.5 million metric tons, while wheat shipments fell to their lowest point of the 2026-27 marketing year.

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Grain Trade & Export

G20 ministers leave Atlanta without Black Sea shipping deal

US officials said Türkiye and India have put forward ideas to restart grain shipments, but ministers agreed on the problem, not on how to fix it.

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Purdue barometer shows farmer sentiment edging up in October

Federal farm program payments lifted producers' view of current conditions, but tariff doubts and weaker balance sheets kept long-term expectations in check.

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