Trading opened today’s session mostly in the green, except for feeder cattle, but late in the session corn and the soybean complex turned lower. Notables for the week included new contract lows for:
November soybeans December soymeal September SRW September HRW September HRS
Weather will continue to drive this market and an active front brings bearish showers across the Midwest next week and delivers some relief to the parched southeast. However, the high heat in the west drifts eastward later in the week. The Climate Prediction Center issued its three-month drought outlook for the U.S. As noted by Dave Juday in yesterday’s Livestock Roundup, the drought in the southeastern U.S. has adversely impacted th...
The corn and soy complex closed higher, with the wheat market mixed, as winter wheat closed up but spring wheat and livestock ended lower. Part of the strength for corn and soybeans may have been a weather premium, as crop planting has started out fast but warm weather has been slow to develop...
Real GDP grew at a 2 percent annual rate in the first quarter of 2026, slightly below the consensus expectation of 2.3 percent but above the 0.5 percent growth in Q4 2025. The GDP number matches the average annualized pace of growth since the peak back in late 2007, right before the Financial P...
Reflect for a moment on what you eat. There is a lot of advice out there in the ether about what you should eat, but really, what do you currently eat and how much? The good people at the USDA have some data for you, to help you answer that question. USDA says that we eat quite a bit of meat. L...
