Few people like the big banks but they can set the mood and that is what happened with reports of earnings declining at JPMorgan and Morgan Stanley. The overall trend is down as outside markets trump the fundamentals in ags. One Bloomberg analyst concluded that commodities were never a good investment anyways! Still, it was a mixed day for ags with corn and soymeal ending higher, the rest lower. Seemingly ignored was the weather, which is retuning hot and dry at the same time 45 percent of the production area is short on subsoil moisture.
The quad (Ukraine, Turkey, Russia, and the UN) are set to meet again next week, purportedly to sign an agreement allowing grain exports from Ukraine, but it should be noted that the Western allia...
CORN Argentina In Argentina, after several weeks of intense and frequent rainfall, weather conditions have improved, with clear days, dry cold, and wind supporting both soil and grain drying. Harvest activity has resumed; however, producers continue to prioritize soybeans, limiting progress in...
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...
