The following table is provided as a service to Dow Jones Newswires subscribers in conjunction with the U.S. Department of Agriculture's March world crop production and U.S. and world supply and demand reports. The reports are scheduled for release at 8:30 a.m. EST (1330 GMT) Friday.

U.S. estimates are in billions of bushels except soyoil, which is in billions of pounds. Soymeal is in short tons. Cotton is in millions of 480- pound bales. Rice is in million hundredweight. World crop forecasts are in millions of metric tons.

USDA U.S. Grain, Cotton Carryout 
 
              2011-12   February 
              analyst   2011-12 
              estimate  estimate 
 
   Corn       0.784     0.801 
 
   Wheat      0.838     0.845 
 
   Soybeans   0.257     0.275 
 
   Soyoil      n/a      2.315 
 
   Soymeal     n/a      300,000 
 
   Rice        n/a      39.5 
 
   Cotton     3.60      3.80 
 
   USDA World Carryover 
 
              February 
              2011-12 
              estimate 
 
   Wheat      213.1 
 
   Corn       125.4 
 
   Rice       100.12 
 
   Soybeans   60.3 
 
   Soymeal    8.31 
 
   Soyoil     2.68 
 
   Cotton     60.8 
 
   USDA World Grain Production 
 
                       2011-12   February 
                       analyst   2011-12 
                       estimate  estimate 
 
   China corn             n/a    191.8 
 
   South Africa corn      n/a     12.5 
 
   Argentina corn        21.3     22.0 
 
   Australia wheat        n/a     28.3 
 
   Argentina wheat        n/a     14.5 
 
   EU 27 wheat            n/a     137.5 
 
   Canada wheat           n/a     25.3 
 
   China wheat            n/a     117.9 
 
   Russia wheat           n/a     56.2 
 
   Ukraine wheat          n/a     22.0 
 
   Brazil soybeans       69.5     72.0 
 
   Argentina soybeans    47.0     48.0 
 
   China soybeans         n/a     13.5

-By Andrew Johnson Jr; Dow Jones Newswires; 312-347-4604;

andrew.johnsonjr@dowjones.com

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March 08, 2012 10:49 ET (15:49 GMT)