The markets opened lower and then turned deeper red as the session wore on. Much of the pressure was from outside markets, plus caution ahead of the three-day holiday weekend. Soymeal and livestock managed higher closes but the rest saw losses. For the first four days of this trading week, December corn is down 10 cents, November soybeans have lost 66.5 cents and December SRW is off 11 cents. The trend is likely to continue into the long weekend.
One missing input for today’s trading was the weekly FAS Export Sales report. USDA said it will not be publishing the Weekly Export Sales report today or next week and will resume using the old reporting system effective 15 September. There was a glitch in the new reporting system t...
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...
