THE OPEN March beans: 3 higher March meal: 4.30 higher March soyoil; 58 lower March corn: 1 higher March wheat: 3 lower Prices opened on a steady note but a good round of export sales created a bounce-back market for the day. The markets' clear bullish trends asserted themselves as funds returned as buyers as perceived trading range lows. Beans gain on corn as the spring acreage battle heats up, with the ratio at 2.64:1, favoring beans today. Oilshare seemed to find a possible low. SOY
The markets bounced back solidly from opening lows as shorts covered something in, and those needing to price did so. Funds returned as net buyers on the back of good export sales for meal...
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...
