(NAFB.com) – The USDA says grain and soybean inspections were lower week to week during the seven days ending on October 24. Corn assessments were reported at 823,664 metric tons, down from one million tons from the previous week. The agency says that’s still above the 541,000 tons inspected during the same week a year ago. Wheat inspections totaled 248,534 tons, down from almost 269,000 assessed during the previous week. That’s still higher than the 198,000 tons examined at the same time last year. USDA says the examinations of soybeans for offshore delivery dropped to 2.39 million tons, down from 2.55 million a week earlier. That total is still up from the 2.05 million tons inspected last year. Since the beginning of the marketing year, USDA has inspected 6.62 million metric tons of corn – higher than the 4.98 million last year – 10.4 million tons of soybeans and 9.51 million tons of wheat.