The CBOT featured early firming in the grains complex with nothing but lower prices for the soy complex. Early buy corn/sell soybeans spread trade set the course for lower soy products trade while wheat spent the day drifting lower. The weekly Export Inspections report showed the influence of the Thanksgiving holiday with shipment volumes for the major commodities all posting sizeable weekly decreases. More importantly, however, YTD corn exports are down 58 percent while the same statistic for soybeans and wheat is 20 and 19 percent higher, respectively. The aggressive pace of soybean shipments so far is a fortunate positive for the soybean market heading into springtime when U.S. exports typically decline.
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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...
