For the week ending February 25, total inspections of grain (corn, wheat, and soybeans) for export from all major U.S. export regions totaled 2.8 million metric tons (MMT).
Total grain inspections were up 14 percent from the previous week, up 28 percent from last year, and up 16 percent from the 3-year average.
The increase from the previous week was driven mainly by a 29-percent jump in corn inspections and a 178-percent rebound in corn shipments to Asia. Also, from the previous week, soybean inspections increased 4 percent, and wheat inspections decreased 16 percent.
In the Pacific Northwest, total grain inspections jumped 75 percent from the previous week, but in the Mississippi Gulf, they decreased 6 percent.
In the last 4 weeks, inspections were 41 percent above the same period last year and 23 percent above the prior-three-year average.
