Record High Soybean Container Exports Monday’s export inspections report indicated that USDA personnel inspected 1,083,866 MT of soybeans during the week ending December 19. Included in that amount was 113,271 MT of soybeans to be exported in containers. That was an unusually large weekly number of soybeans in containers to be inspected. USDA also reported an exceptionally large number of containerized soybean inspections that had not been reported in previous weeks, as far back as the week ending 15 November. The total for the delayed reported inspections was 122,242 MT worth of containers. That brought the total to 235,513 MT, by far the largest weekly reporting of inspections of containerized soybeans in history. It is uncl...
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