Weekly			Sales to Date
Grains		Sales		Unshipped	Total	Prev Yr
Corn		20.5		280.5		482.0	726.1
Sorghum		 4.9		 27.7		 53.4	 76.6
Soybeans	 9.6		362.6		456.2	349.9
All Wheat	18.9		155.7		619.8	640.4
Durum		 1.0		 12.6		 33.0	 21.1
Hard Spring	 6.0		 39.6		136.2	175.0
Hard Winter	 4.8		 61.9		218.9	204.6
Soft Red	 2.8		 16.5		124.2	125.4
White Wheat	 4.3		 25.1		107.4	114.2

Other Commodities

Soybean Oil-X	  3.0		 190.0		 216.3	 103.2
Soybean Meal-X	 92.9		2714.9		2849.8	1686.0
Rice-X		 70.4		 552.0		 803.8	 774.8
Cotton-Y	187.1		2382.6		4150.0	2709.8

			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		0.0		0.0
Soybean Meal-X		0.0		0.0
Rice-X			0.0		0.0
Cotton-Y		—0.1		72.9

X"In 1,000 metric tons.

Y"In 1,000 bales.

Wheat sales were on the upper end of trade estimates, with the main buyers Japan, Egypt, and Yemen. A cancel of 4.6 mbu. by “unknown,” trimmed the net sales. Bean and oil sales were on the low end of trade estimates, with a net reduction of 14.6 mbu. in the “unknown” category dampening good sales to the Netherlands, Spain, and Belgium. Corn bookings were 34% under the 4-week average. Taiwan, South Korea, and Japan were the main buyers.

October 23, 1997DTN Grains

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