WASHINGTON, D.C., U.S. — Wheat stored in all positions on Sept. 1 totaled 2,458,849,000 bushels, up 11% from 2,209,338,000 bushels on Sept. 1, 2009, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said in its latest Grain Stocks report. Sept. 1 old crop corn stocks were up 2% at 1,707,566,000 bushels, and old crop soybean stocks were up 9% at 151,121,000 bushels.

The USDA stocks numbers for wheat and corn were above the average of pre-report trade expectations while the soybean number was as expected.

On-farm stocks of wheat were 826,000,000 bushels, down 1% from 836,000,000 bushels a year ago, while off-farm stocks were 1,632,859,000 bushels, up 19% from 1,373,338,000 bushels last year. Indicated disappearance of wheat during the June-August period was 740 million bushels, up 12% from the same period last year, the USDA said.

Durum stocks were 105,791,000 bushels, up 4% from 101,786,000 bushels a year ago. On-farm stocks of 76,800,000 bushels were up 4% from a year ago while off-farm stocks of 28,991,000 bushels were up 5%. Indicated disappearance during the June-August period was 40.2 million bushels, up 24% from a year ago, the USDA said.

On farm stocks of old crop corn totaled 485,100,000 bushels on Sept. 1, down 20% from a year earlier, while off-farm supplies were 1,222,466,000 bushels, up 15%. Indicated disappearance of corn during the June-August period was 2.6 billion bushels, up slightly from 2.59 billion bushels in the same period last year, the USDA said.

Old crop on-farm soybean stocks were 35,400,000 bushels, up 1% from Sept. 1, 2009, while off-farm stocks totaled 115,721,000 bushels, up 12%. Indicated disappearance during June-August was 420 million bushels, down 8% from the same period a year earlier.

Sept. 1 stocks of other grains were: barley, 224,994,000 bushels, down 6% from 2009; oats, 117,448,000 bushels, down 9%; old crop grain sorghum, 41,241,000 bushels, down 25%; and old crop sunflowerseed, 358,567,000 lbs, down 27%, including 297,127,000 lbs of oil type, down 30%.