THE OPEN Jan beans: 5-7 higher Jan meal: 1.10 higher Jan soyoil: 52 higher March corn: 2 1/2 higher March wheat: 6 1/2 lower The markets opened as expected with the key feature being that of breaking wheat prices. Prices elsewhere remained firm as traders bought corn and beans on Chinese rumors while selling wheat as it should remain the bearish market heading into the December 10 WASDE report. SOY
The soy complex opened higher with a small pullback as wheat prices broke lower. However, the markets remained well bid with soyoil following higher canola and firmer crude. Canola prices were higher on the bullish Stats Canada production number, which created a test of recent...
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...
