FAS Reports Private Exporters' Wheat and Soybean Sales to Unknown Destinations and China
The Foreign Agriculture Service reports that private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 165,000 metric tons of soybeans to China during the 2012/2013 marketing year. The marketing year for soybeans began September 1.
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FAS also reports that Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 138,900 metric tons of wheat for delivery to unknown destinations during the 2012/2013 marketing year. Of the total, 68,050 tons is hard red winter, 40,000 tons is soft white, 28,450 tons is hard red spring wheat, and 2,400 tons is durum wheat. The marketing year for wheat began on June 1.
(See ITT’s Online Archives 11041815 for summary of last year’s private exporter report on soybean sales, also of 165,000 metric tons, to China during the 2011-12 marketing year.)
FAS press release on private exporters' soybean export activity to China (dated 04/10/12) available here.
FAS press release on private exporters' wheat export activity to unknown destinations (dated 04/05/12) available here.