THE OPEN May beans: 2 lower May meal: 1.20 lower May soyoil: 5 lower May corn: 6 3/4 higher May wheat: 7 3/4 higher The markets opened as called with a sharp rally in corn leading the way higher for other markets to do much the same. Wheat futures ran more shorts out of the market as prices rose responding to ongoing concerns over dryness in the US northern plains, and the fact that HRW could be an alternative to high priced corn for cattle feeders. Bean trade was higher tagging along with corn prices, but the cancellation of beans for old crop by China seemed to weigh on the market. SOY
The major feature in the soy complex was that of higher oilshare, as traders once again bot soyoi...
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...
