On low to average volume, the trading range has tightened. While corn and wheat have been ascendant, today it was corn and soybeans settling higher and wheat was down.
Continuing to hang over the market, and especially animal proteins, has been bank failures and Fed tightening. Wall Street got a boost of confidence today on a bailout orchestrated by the largest U.S. banks. Proving that they are all in this together, they deposited $30 billion into the shaky mid-major First Republic Bank. A bank that should never have gotten into trouble considering its portfolio is low-risk, high net-worth investors. The Dow was up over a percent, the S&P gained 1.76 percent and Nasdaq gained 2.48 percent. Though all the indices remain down on...
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...
