date:Dec 12, 2013
The US soy industry has exported 1.7 billion bushels of US soy to global customers in the 2012-13 marketing year, ending Sept. 30. The value of these exports totals a new record of more than $28 billion an 19 percent increase from 2011-2012.
This total includes more than 1.3 billion bushels of whole US soybeans, meal from 454 million bushels of US soybeans and oil from 186 million bushels, which represents 56 percent of US soybean production from last year, according to the US Census Bureau.