THE OPEN May beans: 1 lower May meal: .80 lower May soyoil: 8 higher May corn: 1/2 lower May weather: 8 1/2 higher The markets opened as expected with inverses recovering from a recent sell-off and prices popping off fresh lows. Buy bean/sell corn and buy soyoil/sell meal trade continues. Prices continue to now recover from end-of-month profit-taking, with an impressive performance today. Good rallies were noted, but the March theme of choppy trade may continue to persevere. SOY
May beans held on to key technical support levels from $13.75 to $13.80 with pricing, short-covering, and perhaps even new buying activity. November beans gained as well, after prices nearly tested 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...
