Argentinian corn exporters registered 1.64mn metric tonnes (t) during the week ended on 23 May, as shippers pushed bookings for June loading to 3mn t.
After exporters booked record corn volumes for April and May, registrations for June loading had been slow to build. But the current week saw 1.39mn t of corn registered for loading by the end of the month, pushing total registrations within 49,000t of last year's level for June. The remaining 175,000t were registered for loading by the end of July.
Wheat bookings rose threefold from last year's volume for the week to reach 178,000t. But barley export registrations were lower compared with last year's volume at only 26,100t.
Soy export registrations were mixed for the week, with soybeans and oil more than doubling last year's volumes. But meal bookings fell by nearly half. Exporters registered 95,800t of soybeans for export, with 66,000t booked for June loading and the rest for July. Soybean oil registration reached 173,000t, most of which was booked for June loading. Soybean meal export registration fell to 287,000t, also primarily for June loading.
Registrations were also mixed across sunflower products. Shippers booked 1,790t of sunflower seed for export, up 34pc from the prior year's volume for the week. Sunflower oil export registrations were double last year's level for the week at 56,700t, and sunflower meal export registrations fell by 13pc to 67,100t.
