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- Table 1: Grain transport cost indicators (xlsx) - Weekly changes in truck, rail, barge, and ocean freight rates using diesel prices, nearby secondary rail market rates, Illinois barge rates, and ocean freight rates from U.S. Gulf and PNW to Japan as proxies.
SOURCE: TRANSPORTATION & MARKETING PROGRAM/AMS/USDA - Tables 2A and 2B: U.S. origins to export position price spreads and futures prices ($/bushel) (xlsx) - Compares interior prices of corn in Illinois and Nebraska and Gulf, Iowa and Gulf soybean prices, Kansas and Gulf Hard Red Winter wheat, North Dakota and Portland Hard Red Spring wheat.
- Deprecated - Table 4: Railcar auction offerings (xlsx) - Weekly railcar bids/offers in the primary shuttle and non-shuttle railcar market. This data will be posted through March 28 and then removed.
SOURCE: TRANSPORTATION & MARKETING PROGRAM/AMS/USDA - Figure 5, 6, 7; Table 5: Bids/Offers for railcars to be delivered in the secondary market (xlsx) - Weekly railcar bids/offers for the secondary non-shuttle and shuttle railcar market.
SOURCE: TRANSPORTATION & MARKETING PROGRAM/AMS/USDA - Tables 6 and 7: Tariff rail rates for unit and shuttle train shipments (xlsx)- Monthly tariff rail rates and fuel surcharges for selected U.S. origin and destination pairs.
SOURCES: WWW.BNSF.COM, WWW.CPR.CA, WWW.CSX.COM, WWW.UPRR.COM - Table 8: Tariff rail rates for U.S. bulk grain shipments to Mexico (xlsx) - Monthly tariff rail rates and fuel surcharges from selected U.S. origin states to selected Mexican regions.
SOURCES: WWW.BNSF.COM, WWW.UPRR.COM, WWW.KCSOUTHERN.COM - Figure 8: Railroad fuel surcharges (xlsx) - Monthly weighted average railroad fuel surcharges.
SOURCES: WWW.BNSF.COM, WWW.CN.CA, WWW.CPR.CA, WWW.CSX.COM, WWW.KCSOUTHERN.COM, WWW.NSCORP.COM, WWW.UPRR.COM TRANSPORTATION & MARKETING PROGRAM/AMS/USDA - Figure 9: Illinois River barge freight rate (xlsx) - Weekly Illinois River barge freight rate as a percent of tariff.
SOURCE: TRANSPORTATION & MARKETING PROGRAM/AMS/USDA - Table 9: Weekly barge freight rates: Southbound only (xlsx) - Nearby, one-month, and three-month barge freight rates as a percent of tariff, for Twin Cities, Mid-Mississippi, Illinois, St. Louis, Cincinnati, Lower Ohio, and Cairo-Memphis.
SOURCE: TRANSPORTATION & MARKETING PROGRAM/AMS/USDA - Figure 11: Grain barge movements through Mississippi River Locks 27 (xlsx) - Weekly southbound grain barge movements through Lower Mississippi River Locks 27.
SOURCE: U.S. ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS - Table 10: Barge grain movements (xlsx) - Weekly grain barge movements through specific locks and dams by grain type.
SOURCE: U.S. ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS - Figure 12: Upbound empty barges (xlsx) - Weekly northbound movements of empty barges through Mississippi River Locks 27, Arkansas River Lock and Dam 1, and Ohio River Locks and Dam 52.
SOURCE: U.S. ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS - Figure 13: Grain barges unloaded in New Orleans region (xlsx) - Weekly southbound grain barge movements through Mississippi River Locks 27, Arkansas River Lock and Dam 1, and Ohio River Locks and Dam 52 compared with the number of grain barges unloaded in New Orleans region. Note: does not include barges originated south of Locks 27 near St. Louis, MO.
SOURCES: U.S. ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS AND AMS - Table 12: U.S. export balances and cumulative exports (xlsx) - Unshipped export sales balances and cumulative marketing-year-to-date export sales of wheat, corn, and soybeans.
SOURCE: FOREIGN AGRICULTURAL SERVICE/USDA - Table 13: Top 5 importers of U.S. corn (xlsx) - Cumulative export sales commitments for the top 5 importing countries of U.S. corn that account for over 70% of U.S. corn exports.
SOURCE: WWW.FAS.USDA.GOV/EXPORT-SALES/MYFI_RPT.HTM - Figure 15: U.S. grain inspected for export (wheat, corn, and soybeans) (xlsx) - Weekly total U.S. grain inspected for export (wheat, corn, and soybeans), measured in million bushels (mbu). Compares the current week’s total to the 3-year average.
SOURCE: Federal grain inspection service/USDA - Table 14: Top 5 importers of U.S. soybeans (xlsx) - Cumulative export sales commitments for the top 5 importing countries of U.S. soybeans that account for over 80% of U.S. soybean exports.
SOURCE: FOREIGN AGRICULTURAL SERVICE/USDA (https://apps.fas.usda.gov/export-sales) - Figure 16: U.S. grain inspections for U.S. Gulf and PNW (wheat, corn, and soybeans) (xlsx) - Weekly grain inspected for export (wheat, corn, and soybeans), measured in million metric tons (mmt), for the Mississippi Gulf, Texas Gulf, and Pacific Northwest. Compares the current week’s values to their respective prior-year values and 3-year averages.
SOURCE: Federal grain inspection service/USDA - Table 15: Top 10 importers of U.S. wheat (xlsx) - Cumulative export sales commitments for the top 10 importing countries of U.S. wheat that account for over 60% of U.S. wheat exports.
SOURCE: FOREIGN AGRICULTURAL SERVICE/USDA (https://apps.fas.usda.gov/export-sales) - Table 16: Grain inspections for export by U.S. port region (1,000 metric tons) (xlsx) - Weekly inspections of wheat, corn, and soybeans, for the port regions of Pacific Northwest, Mississippi Gulf, Texas Gulf, Interior, Great Lakes, and Atlantic.
SOURCE: Federal grain inspection service/USDA - Table 17_Figure 17: Weekly port region grain ocean vessel activity (number of vessels) (xlsx) - Weekly number of grain vessels loaded during the week and expected to be loaded within the next 10 days in the Gulf, PNW, and Vancouver, B.C. Also, Figure 16 shows weekly vessel loading activity in the U.S. Gulf compared to same period a year earlier and 4-year average.
SOURCE: TRANSPORTATION & MARKETING PROGRAM/AMS/USD - Figure 18: Grain vessel rates, U.S. to Japan (xlsx) - Compares the monthly ocean freight rates for shipping bulk grain and the spread between the U.S. Gulf and PNW to Japan to the same period a year earlier and 4-year average.
SOURCE: O'NEIL COMMODITY CONSULTING