{"id":3728,"date":"2015-04-20T13:53:55","date_gmt":"2015-04-20T13:53:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/grains.org\/ltamex\/usgc-report-offers-details-to-overseas-customers-about-quality-of-corn-headed-for-export\/"},"modified":"2015-04-20T13:53:55","modified_gmt":"2015-04-20T13:53:55","slug":"usgc-report-offers-details-to-overseas-customers-about-quality-of-corn-headed-for-export","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grains.org\/ltamex\/usgc-report-offers-details-to-overseas-customers-about-quality-of-corn-headed-for-export\/","title":{"rendered":"USGC Report Offers Details to Overseas Customers About Quality of Corn Headed for Export"},"content":{"rendered":"
The U.S. Grains Council (USGC) has released the 2014\/2015 Corn Export Cargo Quality Report<\/a>, <\/em>the fourth in a series measuring U.S. corn quality by looking at grade factors, moisture, chemical composition and physical composition in corn samples ready to be loaded for overseas shipment.<\/p>\n This information is valuable for U.S. international corn customers, many of whom have come to anticipate its findings each year. USGC\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s global staff and membership will start presenting the report\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s results to interested customers during the coming month.<\/p>\n \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The United States is the only country that releases such a comprehensive report on the quality of its corn crop,\u00e2\u20ac\ufffd said USGC Manager of Global Trade Manuel Sanchez, who will use the report\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s results in his work with overseas customers. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153International customers know this and eagerly await its release. This year is no exception.\u00e2\u20ac\ufffd<\/p>\n This year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s report is based on 411 yellow commodity corn samples collected from corn export shipments as they underwent the U.S. government-licensed export sampling and inspection process. The report covers both waterborne and rail export cargoes with results reported as U.S. aggregate and with details from three regions covering the bulk of U.S. corn exports: the Gulf, Pacific Northwest and Southern Rail. <\/p>\n Important findings from the 2014\/2015 report include the following:<\/p>\n \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Overall, the report indicates U.S. corn at the point of export meets the requirements for U.S. No. 2,\u00e2\u20ac\ufffd Sanchez said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153One thing of note was the hardness of the 2014 U.S. corn crop. We believe this was due to the favorable growing conditions the crop experienced, which led to larger corn kernels than last year with hard endosperms of 70 to 100 percent.”<\/p>\n The hardness of the 2014 corn crop is one example of a trait that has varied year-to-year. With four years of data now available from the Council’s export quality reports, users can begin to develop an average baseline and track trends. For the first time this year, the report includes three-year-averages for the different characteristics to aid in this analysis.<\/p>\n The newly-released export cargo quality report is a companion to the Council\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 2014\/2015 Corn Harvest Quality Report<\/em>, which details the quality of U.S. corn at the time of harvest. Click here<\/a> to view the harvest quality report that was released in December 2014.<\/p>\n\n