| Here is what was alluded to by a couple other posters in this thread, and something which seems to be ignored by a lot of people who should know better. Here are examples of the discrepancies which are typical between the last export inspections report of the marketing year, and the number used in the January final WASDE.
Weekly Final 9/3/2013 695,400 731,000 95.1%
8/27/2012 1,489,231 1,543,000 96.5%
8/29/2011 1,766,532 1,835,000 96.2%
8/30/2010 1,855,994 1,980,000 93.8% |