THE OPEN July beans: 21 higher July meal: 4.90 higher July soyoil: 180 pts higher July corn: 6 higher July wheat: 7 3/4 higher Prices opened and quickly escalated to the upside. Beans and soyoil quickly post new contract highs. Funds were buying out of the gate on solid technical closes, firm cash, extreme cold temperatures, and technical strength. New contract highs were quickly placed in beans, corn, and soyoil, and it felt like there was some panic buying as prices reached new levels of resistance. SOY
The soy complex traded higher on the day with prices jumping quickly to new contract highs. July beans traded up to new contract highs at $14.71 1/2, with November trading over the...
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...
