THE OPEN November beans: 18 higher December meal: 6.60 higher December soyoil: 50 pts higher December corn: 9 1/4 higher December wheat: 7 1/2 higher The markets opened as called with fund buying activity note as well as profit-taking in oilshare. Buy meal/sell soyoil was a dominant feature of trade which sent soyoil prices into two-sided trade. Trade turned choppy as further oilshare losses spilled over into neighboring markets. SOY
The major feature in the soy complex was that of profit-taking in oilshare, with beans rallying at first but losing steam into the midday hour. While there are rumors that China could be inquiring for US beans, they have in fact been p...
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...
