This article is brought to you by:

EXPORT SALES REPORT

FOR WEEK ENDING 9/11/97


		Weekly		Sales to Date
Grains		Sales	Unshipped	Total	Prev Yr
Corn		24.3	305.5		336.7	599.5
Sorghum		 0.8	 28.0		 29.8	 69.7
Soybeans	22.5	297.5		310.0	185.6
All Wheat	25.4	193.1		513.4	557.8
  Durum		 1.4	 15.1		 28.4	 20.8
  Hard Spring	 6.7	 43.3		109.4	136.6
  Hard Winter	12.7	 78.6		188.9	183.7
  Soft Red	 0.6	 29.7		106.6	121.7
  White Wheat	 4.0	 26.3		 80.1	 95.1

Other Commodities

Soybean Oil-X	 23.6	  76.8		 847.6	 265.2
Soybean Meal-X	 44.1	 275.5		5501.6	4472.9
Rice-X		 66.5	 371.9		 507.3	 503.4
Cotton-Y	120.6	2718.1		3242.0	1974.3

			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		0.0		0.0
  Durum			0.0		0.0
  Hard Spring		0.0		0.0
  Hard Winter		0.0		0.0
  Soft Red		0.0		0.0
  White Wheat		0.0		0.0

Other Commodities

Soybean Oil-X		 13.5		  47.0
Soybean Meal-X		106.9		1795.9
Rice-X			  0.0		   0.0
Cotton-Y		  2.3		  70.4

X"In 1,000 metric tons.

Y"In 1,000 bales.

Corn sales continue be a sluggish 24 million bushels per week, and total commitments are still only 56% of last year at this time. They were up 3% from last week, with Japan and Panama he major buyers. Soybean sales continue strong, rebounding 53% from last week. A sale of 9.5 mbu to “unknown,” lead the buyers list, followd by the Netherlands. Wheat sales were “as expected,” with major buyers Iraq, Philippines, South Korea, Japan, Egypt, and Venezuela. Meal sales up.

September 18, 1997 DTN Grains

Consensus National Futures and Financial On Line Index

Added to the WWW 09-19-97
Last updated on 09-20-97

Hosted by:
One Crossroads Place
610 West Maple Ave, Suite WWW
Independence, MO 64050
(816) 252-4080
sysop@kcmo.com

wmeubank@ocp.kcmo.com