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USDA Cuts Global Corn Ending Stocks Forecast

The USDA has lowered it's global corn and soybean stocks and raised it's wheat stocks from it's September projections.

The department says increased wheat beginning stocks and production offset a slight increase in total world usage, bumping the world ending stocks up 1 point 9 million tones.

That would bring those ending stocks to a record 228 point 5 million tons.

Global 2015-16 corn ending stocks are now projected to be 187 point 8 million tons.

That's 1 point 9 million tons lower than the September projections and would be 8 point 2 million lower than the 2014-15 number.

The USDA raised it's global soybean stock projections marginally as higher stocks for Brazil are only partly offset by reductions for the U-S, Argentina and India.

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