It was another mostly green day in agricultural futures, lending credence to the saying that the trend is your friend. Macro markets offered new variables but for ags it was more of the same old same old. The direction was mostly set out of the box with several opening bids outrunning the overnight closes. There were corrections later in the trading, but the overall pattern was set. This was especially true in the reversal of now sell meal and buy oil. It has become a bit of a mini-rally this week in corn, wheat, and soybeans. Since the market opened on Monday, December corn and November soybeans are each up over 9.5 percent, and September SRW is up 7.6 percent.
USDA’s weekly Export Sales report did little to contribute to t...
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...
