Back in August we wrote about new-crop sales of soybeans, corn, sorghum and cotton to China. In the six weeks since then sales of those crops have continued to turn heads. Large sales combined with decreased production estimates in the September World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates report have put upward pressure on futures prices and increased grower optimism. It’s time to look again at 2020-2021 crop sales to China in relation to previous years. Here we compare new-crop outstanding sales plus accumulated exports for the 2020-2021 marketing year to the same period from the past five years.