There was a lot of input coming at the market today, but the only significant movements came in corn and soyoil. First up was news that the Kakhovka dam and hydroelectric plant on the Dnipro River in southern Ukraine was destroyed. Early word was that farmland was flooded but the reaction was muted. It is a sad development for Ukraine, but the area impacted plays only a minor role in the country’s crop production. The flooding mostly impacts the Kherson Oblast, which is in the southeast corner of the nation. It contributes 6 percent of the wheat and barley area, 4 percent of sunflower production, and just 1 percent of corn output.
The global supply side appears to be more at risk from weather than war. Australia and Indonesi...
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...
