This report is a daily grain report containing bids and/or trades of grain commodities. Grain commodities are classed and graded based on official USDA standards or guidelines for coarse grains, oilseeds, and/or pulses. Price information is released by USDA’s Livestock, Poultry, and Grain Market News Division under the Voluntary Price Reporting authority of USDA’s Agriculture Marketing Service. This report contains price spreads and simple averages for individual grain commodities and may include a basis calculated from the current day or prior day close of a publicly traded futures price. The commodity exchanges used in calculating the basis are identified as either the Chicago Board of Trade, Minneapolis Grain Exchange, or Kansas City Board of Trade.

This report contains weekly dealer and grower values for dry beans. Also included are dealer and grower values for peas in Washington/Idaho and North Dakota/Montana as well as information on bean, pea, and lentil forward contracts .

This report contains monthly average prices, production by commercial class and/or state, exports by country of destination, purchases for domestic feeding programs, supply, and distribution of dry beans in the U.S..

The dry bean datasets include area, yield, production, price, and value information by state and dry bean production by class and state, as well as various indexes.In addition, per capita disappearance, world area, production, price, and export and import volume information is also included. The data tables are in .xls format and are downloadable either separately or collectively in a .zip file.