USDA’s Latest World Supply and Demand Forecast Released

(WASHINGTON, DC) USDA is projecting higher prices this season for wheat and soybeans, but lower prices for corn and cotton in their latest World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates Report. The increase for U.S. wheat is based on lower supplies, higher domestic use, larger exports, and reduced stocks. The projected season-average farm price is $5.20 per bushel, up $0.10. This month’s 2019/20 U.S. corn outlook is for larger production and beginning stocks, greater feed, and residual use, lower food, seed, and industrial use, and increased ending stocks. With supply rising more than use, stocks are raised to two billion. The season-average corn price received by producers is lowered 10 cents to $3.70 per bushel. This month’s U.S. soybean supply and use projections for 2019/20 include lower beginning stocks, production, exports, and ending stocks. The season-average price for soybeans is forecast at $8.40 per bushel, up 15 cents from last month. Finally, cotton projections show higher beginning and ending stocks compared with last month, so the forecast for the marketing-year average price received by producers is reduced 1 cent to 63 cents per pound, a four-year low.