USDA NUMBERS
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Yield:
Monster corn yield. Surpassing even the highest expectations. Soybeans also surprised high.
🌽 Corn: 188.8 vs 184.4 est
🌱 Beans: 53.6 vs 52.9 est
Harvested Acres:
Corn acres surprised high, bean acres surprised low.
🌽 Corn: 88.7 vs 86.716 est
🌱 Beans: 80.1 vs 82.56 est
Production:
With the massive jump in yield and bigger acres corn production came in higher than expected. With the cut to acres, soybeans came in lower than expectations despite the bump to yield.
🌽 Corn: 16.742 vs 15.99 est
🌱 Beans: 4.292 vs 4.368 est
Carryout:
New crop corn came in well above estimates. Going to 2.117 billion bushels. With the cut to acres, soybeans fell to 290 million.
Old crop came in slightly below the estimates for both.
🌽 New Crop Corn: 2.117 vs 1.900 est
🌽 Old Crop Corn: 1.305 vs 1.321 est
🌱 New Crop Beans: 0.290 vs 0.351 est
🌱 Old Crop Beans: 0.330 vs 0.345 est
(Scroll to view the balance sheet changes)
New Crop Balance Sheet Changes:
🌽 Corn: we saw a big jump in demand. But the major increase in supply more than offset the demand. We saw a +545 increase to demand, but a +1,000 jump in supply. Resulting in a net increase of +457 million on the carryout.
🌱 Beans: With the decrease in harvested acres, overall supply dropped -63 million. However, we saw a -43 million cut to demand. Which led to overall carryout dropping -20 million.
(Red highlight means bearish, green highlight means bullish)
Wheat Production:
Winter wheat slightly higher.
Spring wheat slightly lower.
Overall the increase in winter wheat offset the decrease in spring, resulting in higher total for all wheat.
World Carryout:
🌽 Corn: Surprised high with the bigger US production.
🌱 Beans: Surprised low with less US production.
🌾 Wheat: Slightly below expectations.
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