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EXPORT SALES REPORT

FOR WEEK ENDING 12/11/97


		Weekly		Sales to Date
Grains		Sales  Unshipped	Total	Prev Yr
Corn		14.9	272.4		699.0	946.9
Sorghum		10.7	 52.9		106.6	106.3
Soybeans	24.7	218.2		625.5	573.2
All Wheat	14.0	143.5		748.8	733.9
Durum		—0.2	  6.4		 36.0	 26.3
Hard Spring	 3.4	 30.9		163.7	210.3
Hard Winter	 3.5	 56.3		260.1	218.1
Soft Red	 5.2	 21.9		143.8	129.5
White Wheat	 2.2	 28.1		145.2	149.7

Other Commodities
Soybean Oil-X	106.7	 270.0		 494.9	 311.8
Soybean Meal-X	240.9	2880.3		4253.2	2841.4
Rice-X		 48.1	 554.6		1287.5	1332.5
Cotton-Y	263.7   3698.4		5579.0	3721.6

			Weekly New	Total New
Grains			Crop Sales	Crop Sales
Corn			0.0		0.0
Sorghum			0.0		0.0
Soybeans		0.0		0.0
All Wheat		0.7		3.6
Durum			0.0		0.0
Hard Spring		0.7		3.3
Hard Winter		0.0		0.1
Soft Red		0.0		0.2
White Wheat		0.0		0.0

Other Commodities
Soybean Oil-X		 0.0		  0.0
Soybean Meal-X		 0.3		  0.3
Rice-X			 0.0		  0.0
Cotton-Y		20.7		107.4

X–In 1,000 metric tons.

Y–In 1,000 bales.

Corn sales were 48% below the week, a marketing year low, 1/2 under the 4-week average. Major increases reported for Taiwan, Japan, and Chile. Soybeans were 15% above the previous week and 11% above the 4-week average. Major increases in “unknown” destinations (110,900 MT), Japan, Mexico, South Korea, Taiwan, and UK. Reductions of 55,000 for France. Wheat sales were off 1/10 from the previous week and 1/4 from the 4-week. Major increases for Trinidad, Egypt, Japan, Iraq, and Uganda offset a decrease for “unknown” destinations and Peru. Cotton sales were 33% above the prior week and 2/3 above the 4-week average.

December 18, 1997 DTN Grains

Consensus National Futures and Financial On Line Index

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