Corn International News
31-Mar-2026 08:25 AM
Corn International News
USDA reported a private export sale of 145,000 MT of corn to unknown destinations this morning.
According to USDA’s FGIS report, corn export shipments totaled 1.789 MMT (70.45 million bushels) in the week ending March 26. This was 5.1% higher than the previous week and 4.14% above the same week last year.
Mexico was the top destination with 369,416 MT, while 326,353 MT was shipped to Japan and 278,764 MT to South Korea.
For the 2025/26 marketing year starting September 1, total exports have reached 46.37 MMT (1.826 billion bushels), which is 36.11% higher than the same period last year. During the same period, 179,243 MT of sorghum was exported to China.
Ahead of the USDA March Planting Intentions report, traders expect U.S. corn acreage to be around 94.37 million acres, which would be about 4.4 million acres lower than last year.
Grain Stocks data is expected to show corn stocks at 9.104 billion bushels as of March 1, which would be 957 million bushels higher than a year ago.
In Brazil, AgRural reported that the second corn crop (safrinha) planting is now 99% complete. However, the production estimate was trimmed by 0.5 MMT to 135.7 MMT.