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CROC Analista
Grain Stocks
ISSN: 1949-0925
Released March 28, 2013, by the National Agricultural Statistics Service
(NASS), Agricultural Statistics Board, United States Department of
Agriculture (USDA).
Corn Stocks Down 10 Percent from March 2012
Soybean Stocks Down 27 Percent
All Wheat Stocks Up 3 Percent
Corn stocks in all positions on March 1, 2013 totaled 5.40 billion bushels,
down 10 percent from March 1, 2012. Of the total stocks, 2.67 billion bushels
are stored on farms, down 16 percent from a year earlier. Off-farm stocks, at
2.73 billion bushels, are down 4 percent from a year ago. The
December 2012 - February 2013 indicated disappearance is 2.63 billion
bushels, compared with 3.62 billion bushels during the same period last year.
Soybeans stored in all positions on March 1, 2013 totaled 999 million
bushels, down 27 percent from March 1, 2012. Soybean stocks stored on farms
are estimated at 457 million bushels, down 18 percent from a year ago.
Off-farm stocks, at 543 million bushels, are down 34 percent from last March.
Indicated disappearance for the December 2012 - February 2013 quarter totaled
967 million bushels, down 3 percent from the same period a year earlier.
All wheat stored in all positions on March 1, 2013 totaled 1.23 billion
bushels, up 3 percent from a year ago. On-farm stocks are estimated at
237 million bushels, up 9 percent from last March. Off-farm stocks, at
997 million bushels, are up 2 percent from a year ago. The
December 2012 - February 2013 indicated disappearance is 436 million bushels,
down 6 percent from the same period a year earlier.
Durum wheat stocks in all positions on March 1, 2013 totaled 42.4 million
bushels, up 18 percent from a year ago. On-farm stocks, at 21.4 million
bushels, are up 20 percent from March 1, 2012. Off-farm stocks totaled
21.0 million bushels, up 17 percent from a year ago. The
December 2012 - February 2013 indicated disappearance of 18.6 million bushels
is up 52 percent from the same period a year earlier.
Barley stocks in all positions on March 1, 2013 totaled 116 million bushels,
up 24 percent from March 1, 2012. On-farm stocks are estimated at
35.2 million bushels, 33 percent above a year ago. Off-farm stocks, at
81.2 million bushels, are 21 percent above March 2012. The
December 2012 - February 2013 indicated disappearance totaled 41.7 million
bushels, 8 percent below the same period a year earlier.
Oats stored in all positions on March 1, 2013 totaled 52.6 million bushels,
30 percent below the stocks on March 1, 2012. Of the total stocks on hand,
18.9 million bushels are stored on farms, down 4 percent from a year ago.
Off-farm stocks totaled 33.7 million bushels, down 39 percent from the
previous year. Indicated disappearance during December 2012 - February 2013
totaled 20.6 million bushels, up 374 percent from the same period a year ago.
Grain sorghum stored in all positions on March 1, 2013 totaled 91.4 million
bushels, down 15 percent from a year ago. On-farm stocks, at 10.9 million
bushels, are down 15 percent from last March. Off-farm stocks, at
80.5 million bushels, are down 15 percent from a year earlier. The
December 2012 - February 2013 indicated disappearance from all positions is
48.5 million bushels, up 13 percent from the same period last year.
Sunflower stocks in all positions on March 1, 2013 totaled 1.19 billion
pounds, up 31 percent from March 1, 2012. All stocks stored on farms totaled
574 million pounds and off-farm stocks totaled 621 million pounds. Stocks of
oil type sunflower seed are 1.00 billion pounds; of this total, 503 million
pounds are on-farm stocks and 499 million pounds are off-farm stocks. Non-oil
sunflower stocks totaled 192 million pounds, with 70.4 million pounds stored
on the farm and 122 million pounds stored off the farm.
This report was approved on March 28, 2013.
