THE OPEN March beans: 22 lower March meal: 6.60 lower March soyoil: 60 lower March corn: 6 1/2 lower March wheat: 7 1/2 lower Prices opened lower but once again bottom key support levels held in place as commercials covered recent business transactions and funds covered shorts. Buy corn/sell bean trade continued as prices remained defensive into the noon hour. Surprisingly, weaker markets found support at lows, which helped price stabilization. SOY
The soy complex opened under pressure with soyoil futures holding up the best while beans and meal prices held opening lows. Funds sold into commercial pricings, which kept prices afloat, though technical action was defensive f...
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...
