The following table is provided as a service to Dow Jones Newswires subscribers in conjunction with the U.S. Department of Agriculture's January annual crop production, winter wheat seedings, grain stocks and supply and demand report. The report is scheduled for release at 12:00 p.m. EST (1700 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.
Crop Production
Average Range December 2011
USDA Output
Corn 10.626 10.100-10.801 10.725 12.358
Soybeans 2.999 2.922-3.104 2.971 3.094
Cotton 17.24 17.00-17.45 17.26 15.57
Yield
Corn 122.4 121.0-123.4 122.3 147.2
Soybeans 39.6 38.6-41.0 39.3 41.9
Winter Wheat Seedings
Average Range 2011 Seedings
All Winter 42.6 41.7-44.7 41.3
Hard Red 30.3 29.9-31.0 29.9
Soft Red 8.9 8.2-10.0 8.1
White 3.5 3.3-3.9 3.3
USDA U.S. Grain, Cotton Carryout
2012-13 December 2011-12
Analyst 2012-13 USDA
estimate estimate
Soybeans 0.135 0.130 0.169
Corn 0.667 0.647 0.988
Wheat 0.743 0.754 0.743
Soyoil n/a 1.480 2.540
Soymeal n/a 300,000 300,000
Cotton 5.19 5.40 3.35
Rice n/a 30.1 41.1
Grain Stocks
Sept.1 2011 Dec.1
USDA USDA
Average Range Stocks Stocks
Corn 8.210 8.050-8.450 0.988 9.647
Soybeans 1.984 1.915-2.056 0.169 2.370
Wheat 1.674 1.553-1.721 2.104 1.663
USDA World Carryover
December
2012-13
estimate
Wheat 177.0
Corn 117.6
Soybeans 59.9
Soymeal 9.56
Soyoil 3.00
Cotton 79.6
Rice 102.54
USDA World Grain Production
December
2012-13
estimate
China corn 208.0
South Africa corn 13.5
Argentina corn 27.5
Brazil corn 70.0
Australia wheat 22.0
Argentina wheat 11.5
EU 27 wheat 131.7
Canada wheat 27.2
China wheat 120.6
Russia wheat 38.0
Ukraine wheat 15.5
Brazil soybeans 81.0
Argentina soybeans 55.0
China soybeans 12.6
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