THE OPEN May beans: 6 higher May meal: .90 higher May soyoil: 11 lower May corn: 3 1/2 higher May wheat: 1 lower The markets opened as called with the soy complex entering into still higher trade. The sale of corn to China makes it nearly 4 mmt that they have been purchased in the past four days. Buy corn/sell wheat and buy meal/sell soyoil trade was the early morning feature. Bull-spread activity continues, which pushes deferred contracts into new lows, or towards the lower end of recent trading ranges. The US /China meeting in Alaska was reported to be fairly confrontational and tense as current tariffs and trade discussions continue. SOY
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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...
