USDA to Release Nov. Crop Report
Published: Friday, November 7, 2025
Reuters' Karl Plume reported that "the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Statistics Service said on Friday (Oct. 31) that it will release several key agriculture reports in November, including a monthly crop supply and demand report that was not issued in October due to the ongoing U.S. government shutdown."
"NASS will release its crop production and world agricultural supply and demand estimates on Nov. 14, according to a post on its website. The report had been scheduled for Nov. 10, but it was unclear if it would be released since the government has remained largely shuttered since Oct. 1," Plume reported. "The report will provide the government's first estimate of U.S. corn and soybean production since September, when most of the Midwestern harvest was not yet underway. Posts by some farmers on social media sites have since suggested that USDA's yield projection was much too high."
"The USDA's monthly cattle on feed report will be released on schedule on Nov. 21, NASS said, after the October report was not released," Plume reported.
AgWeb's Tyne Morgan reported that "with much of the agency still furloughed, there are questions regarding how NASS will have enough staff to provide those key reports. The release didn't offer any additional details, only saying those key reports will be released in November."
Progressive Farmer's Chris Clayton reported that "on social media, NASS employees stated workers were brought back to work on reports without pay. At least some of the data for these reports was already collected before the government shutdown."
"Until now, the shutdown has silenced the regular flow of government data that producers, analysts and traders depend on—reports like the weekly export sales, crop progress and Cattle on Feed updates, as well as the highly anticipated World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE)," Morgan reported. "'The fact that the government is still shut down means we aren't getting those weekly export sales reports,' says Allen Featherstone, head of the department of agricultural economics at Kansas State University. 'That's a real problem because we rely on that information to confirm what's actually happening in the market.'"
"With the U.S. and China negotiating renewed agricultural trade commitments, there are fresh promises of more purchases in the weeks and months ahead. U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Thursday (Oct. 30) that China has agreed to buy 12 million metric tons of American soybeans during the current season through January and has committed to buying 25 million tons annually for the next three years as part of a larger trade agreement with Beijing," Morgan reported.
"Featherstone notes that while China claims it is buying U.S. soybeans, the lack of USDA verification makes it difficult to gauge the truth and confirm those buys are happening. And in USDA's announcement Friday, there was no indication the flash sales and weekly export sales will resume," Morgan reported. "'(Last) week, China reportedly purchased three vessels, about 180,000 metric tons, but not having official data from USDA is a major issue,' he says. 'Tracking purchases becomes challenging when the normal reporting mechanisms are down.'"
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