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EXPORT SALES REPORT

FOR WEEK ENDING 8/14/97


			Weekly		Sales to Date
Grains			Sales	Unshipped	Total	Prev Yr
Corn			—0.8	121.0		1785.7	2238.0
Sorghum			 0.5	 18.3		 205.3	 192.8
Soybeans		2.23	  9.4		 916.7	 885.1
All Wheat		25.8	204.0		 416.8	 484.0
	Durum		 1.0	 13.4		  23.0	  20.3
	Hard Spring	 6.9	 40.4		  87.0	 105.6
	Hard Winter	 9.6	 84.8		 159.7	 167.6
	Soft Red	 5.1	 36.5		  85.0	 111.2
	White Wheat	 3.2	 28.9		  62.0	  79.4

Other Commodities

Soybean Oil-X		19.1	 113.0		 816.6	 258.4
Soybean Meal-X		33.5	 271.5		5360.8	4277.5
Rice-X			44.4	 249.0		 282.2	 302.8
Cotton-Y		78.0	2291.2		2504.1	1670.1

			Weekly New	Total New
Grains			Crop Sales	Crop Sales
Corn			30.5		204.5
Sorghum			 1.3		 10.7
Soybeans		14.6		217.5
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		   4.0
Soybean Meal-X		244.1		1197.8
Rice-X			  0.0		   0.0
Cotton-Y		  0.0		  57.6

X"In 1,000 metric tons.

Y"In 1,000 bales.

Old-crop corn sales were in negative numbers, but new- crop sales were good with major buyers Japan 17.7 mb and Taiwan 5.3 mb. Wheat sales were 10% higher than last week with major buyers Morocco 3.8 mb and Jordan 3.7 mb. Major buyers of new-crop beans were Taiwan 7.9 mb and Mexico 2.6 mb.

August 21, 1997 DTN Grains

Consensus National Futures and Financial On Line Index

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