I can corroborate.. several shuttle loaders ran hard loading trains OUT.. here.  Remember this is basically the first full year post the.. more or less.. 3 year drought(s) where we kind of got back to normal.

 We had to go to bins.. early during fall harvest as the feedlots filled storage.. shuttles tributary.. sent by train instead.. to Mexico, Arkansas and Arizona.  Our local elevator.. filled its bunker for the first time in 4 years.

Personally our fall crop yields were not as good as 24.. but we had a big wheat crop.. and elevator space became “tight.”

Corn basis here now is still 20 under.. up maybe 15 cents.. but a far cry from $1.35 over in the fall of 23 when we were bringing shuttles in.  Estimated that something like 500 unit trains worth came in 23/24.  Vs shipping out now.

The ethanol plants ground some sorghum.. as that basis crashed.. as wide as $1.20 under.. but now recovered.. and they (not all but most) are switching back to corn.. ours loaded a shuttle of sorghum to Mexico.

Good golly we’d be in a pickle if so much hadn’t gone out by now.. Still lines and hard to get unload shots at destinations.. but.. improving for now.

USDA numbers seem “big” but plausible.

side note.. in Stocks numbers.. Kansas has the highest build in Soybean stocks..YoY.. 45 million.. there is a New Crush plant tributary to the port of Catoosa.. Soybean exports suck.. Catoosa moving wheat.. and this new plant may be accumulating soybeans to grind… ???

Also a smaller one back on line in NW Kansas.. neither amounts to the bump.. but could account for some change in destination.. “some.”

hmmm.