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                     STOCKS OF GRAIN


News Release                                    June 30, 2005



       GRAIN  STOCKS SUPPLIES MIXED FROM A YEAR AGO



SIOUX FALLS, June 30, 2005   June 1 corn, soybean, oat, grain
sorghum, and barley stocks are up from last year,  according to
USDA's South Dakota Agricultural Statistics Service.  All wheat
stocks are down from last year.  Total stocks include grain on
farms, grain in mills and elevators, grain in government storage
bins, and grain stored under the farmer-owned Grain Reserve
Program.

Corn stocks on June 1 totaled 193.6 million bushels, up 50
percent from last year.  On-farm grain stocks accounted for 
150.0 million bushels, up 53 percent from last year.  Off-farm 
stocks, at 43.6 million bushels, were up 42 percent from a year 
ago.

Soybean stocks totaled 29.0 million bushels, up 56 percent from
last year.  On-farm stocks represented 20.5 million bushels, up
163 percent from last June, but off-farm stocks, at 8.5 million
bushels, were down 22 percent from a year ago. 

All wheat stocks, at 22.6 million bushels, were down 25 percent
from a year ago.  On-farm stocks totaled 15.0 million, compared
to 14.5 million last year.  Off-farm stocks, at 7.6 million 
bushels, were down 51 percent from last June.

Oat stocks, at 4.8 million bushels, were up fractionally from 
last year.  On-farm stocks consisted of 3.8 million bushels, up 
3 percent from  last year.  Off-farm stocks totaled 1.0 million
bushels, down 6 percent from June 2004.

Barley on-farm stocks totaled 800,000 bushels, up 122 percent
from the previous year.  Off-farm stocks are not published. 

Sorghum off-farm stocks are at 1.0 million bushels.   On-farm
stocks are not published.


   The complete report can be accessed at www.usda.gov/nass/
          or call Carter Anderson or Steve Noyes at
                        605-323-6500