THE OPEN November beans: 5 lower December meal: 3.80 lower December soyoil: 90 higher December corn: 1 1/4 lower December wheat: 3 3/4 higher The markets opened as expected with more profit-taking as funds remain long and the weaker technical picture, lower demand currently, and improved weather finds more bulls opting out, except for soyoil. Spreads were mixed, while oilshare continued its bull market trend higher. Aside from soyoil, the other markets broke lower into the last hour of trade. SOY
The key feature for the soy complex was that of a weaker tone in meal as opening losses deepened on the back of buy soyoil/sell meal trade, pushing August oilshare to 47.68% and Sep. 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...
