Soybeans were lower overnight with wheat and corn slightly higher. That was also today’s pattern, except that wheat found good buying soon after today’s session opened and traded 12 to 16 cents higher in all three wheat markets for most of the day. It was more talk about how bad the EU drought has gotten that pushed wheat higher. More angry words between the U.S. and China kept pressure on soybeans. The six- to 10-day U.S. weather forecast looks hot and dry across most of the Corn Belt and northern plains as today’s maps show:
This forecast should be somewhat positive to soybeans. The USDA will release their crop production estimates and supply/demand revisions (WASDE) this Friday. Corn and soybean markets should be 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...
