Last week’s landed price of imported soybeans dropped $14/MT to $387/MT even as the yuan fell slightly against the U.S. dollar. That lower cost, however, was offset by a development that brought down wholesale prices.
Oilseeds Soymeal Inventories Finally Retreat As expected, several major soybean crushers have suspended operations in recent weeks in the face of flagging prices for soymeal and soyoil. Even with this cutback, utilization rates have remained fairly high, which has pushed prices further downward. Low prices and the suspension of operations resulted in a significant drop in China’s estimated soymeal inventories through mid-June. The nationwide total stood at 1,119,100 MT as of 16 June, a decrease of 285,...
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...
