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Courtesy of U . S . Grains Council
S . feed grains saw a near-record level of exports in the 2015 / 2016 marketing year — a story that ’ s critical to tell in farm country and easier to communicate with a new set of infographics available from the U . S . Grains Council .
In the last corn marketing year , which ran from September 2015 to August 2016 , the top overseas customers of U . S . corn were Mexico , Japan , Colombia , South Korea and Peru , respectively . In the previous marketing year , Japan was the top U . S . corn destination , with Mexico ranking second .
U . S . sorghum shipments last marketing year were again led by shipments to China followed by Mexico , Pakistan , Sudan and
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