THE OPEN Jan beans: 2 1/2 lower Jan meal: 2.90 lower Jan soyoil: 42 higher March corn: 4 lower March wheat: 3 1/4 lower The markets opened on a mixed note and into tentative trade, with mostly defensive trade except in soyoil. Higher oilshare was the feature of the morning. Grains slipped lower led by weaker wheat trade. SOY
The soy complex traded mixed today with beans and meal lower against a firmer soyoil market. January oilshare traded to 32.88% on the back of higher Asian oil prices, tightening vegoil balance sheets, and sharply higher palm oil trade. Palm oil traded into a new contract high, with November palm oil stocks forecast to be down by 2% with 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...
