Weather and Ukraine remain bearish factors in agricultural markets. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres visited Ukraine today and highlighted that 21 ships have departed Ukrainian ports less than a month after signing the access deal, and 15 vessels are in transit for Ukraine to load more grain and other food supplies. The rains moving across the U.S. are not uniformly beneficial, mostly aiding winter wheat areas pre-seeding and lower corn and soybean states. Nonetheless, it is helpful and rains in Europe will stop the drought from doing anymore damage. The International Grains Council weighed in with a mixed set of changes:
Corn: Global production was lowered by 10 MMT (-0.8 percent), with ending stocks reduced 6 MMT (-2.2 p...
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...
