Corn, wheat, and soybeans traveled in the red for much of the morning trading before wheat turned higher and old crop corn and soybean contracts reversed losses. No doubt weighing on wheat is tensions with Russia, the crops top global supplier, while economic uncertainty keeps animal proteins sucking for air despite tightening cattle supplies. Nearby corn, wheat, and soybean contracts remain net up for the past five days of trading as a result of yesterday’s surge, but the overall trend is down.
Net wheat sales were higher than the recent past and at the top of market expectations. By contrast, last week’s washout in net corn sales achieved a record for being the lowest. Soybean sales were down relative to...
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...
