This data includes historical volumes of U.S. grains inspected for export from major U.S. port regions and countries of destination. Information Contained In This Data Reflects Exported Grain Inspected And Weighed Through The Authority Under The U.S. Grain Standards Act.

This data is reported by USDA's Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS). USDA's Export Sales Reporting Program monitors U.S. agricultural export sales on a daily and weekly basis. Export sales reporting provides a constant stream of up-to-date market information for 40 U.S. agricultural commodities sold abroad. A single statistic reveals the significance of the program: in a typical year, the program monitors more than 40 percent of total U.S. agricultural exports. The program also serves as an early alert on the possible impact foreign sales have on U.S. supplies and prices. The weekly U.S. Export Sales report is the most current available source of U.S. export sales data. The data is used to analyze the overall level of export demand, determine where markets exist, and assess the relative position of U.S. commodities in foreign markets.

The date field in export sales is weekly, based on the calendar year. However, the dataset also keeps track of marketing year export sales. Be cautious when aggregating the export sales data over the date variable to properly account for these factors.

The turn of the marketing year often falls on a different day of the week then the weekly calendar year reporting. In this case, FAS adds an additional row (two total) to the dataset for that calendar week. One row represents that week's values which fell in the previous marketing year, while the other row captures that week's values which fell in the new marketing year. The "Marketing Year Start or End" variable labels these rows as "ENDING MY" and "STARTING MY", respectively, and is otherwise empty.

This creates a double counting issue when aggregating some of the variables by calendar week. See our view, https://agtransport.usda.gov/d/885i-uek7, for an example of avoiding double counting to show total outstanding sales over time.

This line chart shows grain inspections broken out by commodity, filtered by default to only include data from the past three years. Use the filters to select different commodities, ports, destinations, and date ranges.

This bar chart shows the year-to-date exports out of the Gulf and PNW this year and last year. Use the filters to narrow down to specific commodities and destinations or include different port regions.

The data shows the transportation cost of shipping soybeans from select U.S. and Brazil origins to China

This dataset includes historical volumes of US DDGS exports to destination countries by U.S. port districts and calendar year.

This dataset includes monthly historical volumes of U.S ethanol exports to destination countries by U.S port districts and calendar year.

Bar chart of inspections destination volumes broken out by US origin port, using the latest week of inspections data.

Shows weekly total outstanding export sales compared to the same weeks in previous years. Total outstanding sales includes the sum of outstanding sales in the current marketing year and the next. Includes filters to drill-down to specific countries and commodities.

Displays a query from the grain inspections data that sums inspections across destinations for the most recent data.