Higher grain stocks ease supply worries

In this weekly Commodities Watch column, John T. Barone, president and commodities analyst for Market Vision Inc., offers a snapshot of the state of commodities for restaurants.

In its Grain Stocks report, the USDA said that corn, wheat and soybean stocks were all larger than expected, at least temporarily easing supply worries.

The USDA said that U.S. corn inventories had fallen to 5.40 billion bushels, down 600 million from a year ago, but we