inspections of us corn exports are up from last week although still lagged behind the pace of this time last year the us department of agriculture said in its latest grain export inspections report for the week ended may 18 the usda said corn export inspections totaled 132 million metric tons higher than 117 million tons inspected last week however this weeks total remains slower than last year with sales for the week at this time last year being 175 million tons yearly inspections also remain well below last years levels totaling 2737 million tons down 33 from the previous year soybean inspections stayed low this week totaling 155051 tons inspected down from 186787 tons last week wheat inspections were higher totaling 407682 tons compared with 263439 tons last week mexico was the biggest destination for us wheat shipments the usda said while china was the leading destination for us corn and japan was the biggest destination for soybeans grain futures trading on the cbot are higher in trading mostactive corn futures are up 34 soybeans are up 21 and wheat is up 11 to see related data search usda grain inspections for export in metric tons in dow jones newsplus