FOB Gulf Grain-Corn offers hold on routine demand, rising supply

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Nov 8 (Reuters) - Export premiums for corn at the U.S. Gulf
Coast were mostly steady on Friday amid routine demand and
rising supplies from a record-large U.S. crop, traders said.
* U.S. soybean export premiums were flat in quiet trade
following a spike in prices after a bullish U.S. Department of
Agriculture report on Friday.
* U.S. wheat export premiums were unchanged.
* USDA on Friday raised its U.S. corn crop estimate to a
record high 13.989 billion bushels and soy crop estimate to the
third largest ever at 3.258 billion bushels. It also cut global

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* USDA also increased both U.S. corn and soybean export
forecasts, although corn exports were still seen at the second
lowest level of the past 20 years.
* Soybean futures on the Chicago Board of Trade
rallied more than 2 percent following the USDA report, while
corn added 1-1/2 percent and wheat slipped 1/2
percent.
* FOB basis offers for corn, soy and wheat shipments in
November and much of December were unquoted as Gulf export
facilities have little to no loading capacity available
following big forward sales earlier this year.
* Importers have been booking routine purchases of U.S. corn
for January and February shipment, entice by prices near the
lowest levels in three years. Mexico was an active buyer for
that period this week, a trader said.

* U.S. corn prices for the first quarter of 2014 were
competitive on the world market as U.S. prices have dropped
compared with Brazilian and Ukrainian corn values.
* Chinese importers' U.S. soybean needs have been filled for
the near term and they have been eyeing early 2014 shipments.
* China imported 4.19 million tonnes of soybeans in October,
according to the customs administration, down 11 percent from
the prior month. But November and December imports were expected
to surge to a two-month total of 12.5 million tonnes, according
to the CANONIC think-tank.
* Algeria's state grains agency OAIC bought around 650,000
tonnes of optional-origin milling wheat via a tender for
shipment in January and February. Most of the wheat was expected
to be sourced from France.

(Reporting by Karl Plume in Chicago, editing by G Crosse)