Last week was a strong week for U.S. corn export sales. The USDA says old crop corn sales of nearly 4.5 million tons during the week ending March 18th were mainly to China, which purchased almost 4 million tons of the total due to competitive U.S. prices and despite feed demand concerns because of increased cases of African swine fever. The numbers were much less impressive for the other major reported commodities, as beef, pork, soybean, soybean product, sorghum, cotton, and rice sales all fell below the previous week’s levels.

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