THE OPEN July beans: 1 lower July meal: 3.00 higher July soyoil: 99 lower July corn: 7 1/2 higher Dec wheat: 3 3/4 higher The markets owned as expected with beans trending lower on the back of extremely weak vegoil prices. Soyoil prices go lower on the back of sharply lower palm and canola, and possible biofuel changes. Buy corn/sell bean and buy meal/sell soyoil spread trade dominates. China continues to attempt to cool off hot commodity prices, with Premier Li stating they would work to keep grain prices at reasonable levels and work to curb rising prices of ag materials. SOY
The major feature of the morning was that of a continuation of weaker oilshare and soyoil price action.&nbs...
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...
