THE OPEN Nov beans: 2 higher Dec meal: .90 lower Dec soyoil: 50 higher Dec corn: 1 higher Dec wheat: 2 lower The markets opened as expected but it was downhill again from there as the soy complex turned red and corn made new lows. Funds continue to liquidate out of length before the report and as harvest resumes. Buy corn/sell wheat and flip-flopping in oilshare were dominant features of trade. Into the midday hour, prices turned higher from lower signaling the kick-off to a possible congestion phase into report time. SOY
The soy complex opened higher but turned two-sided as soyoil broke lower on the day from a sharply higher overnight trade. Soyoil prices whip-sawed arou...
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...
