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US grain export inspections by port (FGIS)

weekly metric tons of grain inspected for export at each Gulf/PNW/Great Lakes terminal

Feed detail
Measures
weekly metric tons of grain inspected for export at each Gulf/PNW/Great Lakes terminal
Source
USDA Federal Grain Inspection Service (FGIS) weekly export inspections report (available via USDA AMS)
Access
csv
Cadence
weeklyupdates roughly weekly
Thesis
Port-level (not just national) inspection data reveals whether Gulf vs PNW is capturing export share, a proxy for Mississippi barge congestion vs. rail-served PNW competitiveness
Maps to
grain futures basis, barge vs rail freight substitution
Crowdedness
contested
Tier
tA
Ban-risk
ban:none
Where this stands

This is a catalogued data feed with a research idea attached, not a validated edge. Being listed here means it has a specific source and a one-sentence causal mechanism mapped to what it should move — it doesn’t mean it has cleared the five-stage validation gate (point-in-time hygiene, out-of-sample holdout, multiple-testing correction, and the portfolio-layer backstop). As of today, every score on this site is prior-only; zero signals in the catalog have been promoted to “measured” status. See the methodology page for the full validation process and current counts.

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