It was a mixed day for futures trading with corn and wheat rebounding from early week contract lows but the soy complex sliding lower on a weak petroleum market that dragged soyoil down with it.
Weather added a bearish overlay as rains continue to be helpful for Argentina and the forecast calls for increased chances of showers in droughty northern Brazil. There are also storms moving across the overly dry U.S. southwest HRW crop. Deliveries against the expiring December contracts were not as many as expected. Registrations in advance included 2,950 CBOT wheat contracts, four lots of corn, and 62 for soyoil. Deliveries turned out to be just 1,347 for Chicago wheat, and nothing for corn or the soy complex. The China Int...
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...
