THE OPEN November beans: 3 1/2 lower December meal: 1.70 lower December soyoil: 16 higher December corn: 7 lower December wheat: 3 1/4 lower The markets opened as expected with a bit more technical selling on hand in the grains and meal. Higher soyoil prices stabilized beans at first, but weaker meal and grains found beans in the red into the last part of the day. Bull-spreading was noted keeping inverses well supported. SOY
The soy complex was mixed with higher oilshare the major feature as traders bot soyoil/sold meal. August crush trades to 80c/bu while oilshare trades firmer to 46.31%. Traders were buying soyoil on the back of higher palm, canola, and cru...
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...
