THE OPEN May beans: 22 lower May meal: 5.40 lower May soyoil: 50 lower May corn: 8 1/2 lower May wheat: 12 lower The markets opened lower triggering sell-stops as funds sold / liquidated length all day into scale-down commercial pricing activity. Soyoil futures recovered first as traders continue to buy soyoil/sell meal trade, pushing oilshare into 8-year highs. Beans split the middle, while wheat gained on corn. SOY
The key feature of the soy complex was that of further price liquidation, new lows in meal, and higher oilshare. May crush trades up to 72.10c/bu while oilshare strengthens to 39.42%. May and November beans trend lower on selling pressure as the mission of th...
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...
