ST. LOUIS — Old crop corn and soybean stocks in Illinois were both down nearly 50 percent this year compared to last September, according to the USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service, Heartland Regional Field Office.
Old crop corn stocks in all positions on September 1, 2021 totaled 128 million bushels, down 49 percent from September 1, 2020. On-farm stocks totaled 44.0 million bushels, while off-farm stocks totaled 83.8 million bushels. The June – August 2021 indicated disappearance is 484 million bushels.
Old crop soybean stocks in all positions on September 1, 2021 totaled 36.2 million bushels, down 45 percent from September 1, 2020. On-farm stocks totaled 10.0 million bushels, while off-farm stocks totaled 26.2 million bushels. The June – August 2021 indicated disappearance is 86.3 million bushels.
All wheat stocks in all positions on September 1, 2021 totaled 41.9 million bushels, up 47 percent from September 1, 2020. On-farm stocks totaled 6.50 million bushels, while off-farm stocks totaled 35.4 million bushels. The June – August 2021 indicated disappearance is 16.8 million bushels.
Nationally, old crop corn stocks in all positions on September 1, 2021, totaled 1.24 billion bushels, down 36 percent from September 1, 2020. Of the total stocks, 395 million bushels were stored on farms, down 47 percent from a year earlier. Off-farm stocks, 842 million bushels, were down 28 percent from a year ago. The June – August 2021 indicated disappearance was 2.87 billion bushels, compared with 3.08 billion bushels during the same period last year.
Old crop soybeans stored in all positions on September 1, 2021, totaled 256 million bushels, down 51 percent from September 1, 2020. Soybean stocks stored on farms totaled 68.1 million bushels, down 52 percent from a year ago. Off-farm stocks, 188 million bushels, were down 51 percent from last September. Indicated disappearance for June – August 2021 totaled 513 million bushels, down 40 percent from the same period a year earlier.
All wheat stored in all positions on September 1, 2021, totaled 1.78 billion bushels, down 18 percent from a year ago. On-farm stocks were estimated at 4 419 million bushels, down 41 percent from last September. Off-farm stocks, 1.36 billion bushels, were down 6 percent from a year ago. The June – August 2021 indicated disappearance was 711 million bushels, up 2 percent from the same period a year earlier.
— USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service
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