THE OPEN March beans: 6 higher March meal: 3.80 higher March soyoil: 24 higher March corn: 2 1/2 higher March wheat: 3 1/4 lower The markets opened as called with new contract highs set in corn from the open, while profit-taking was noted in the soy complex. All in all, the markets remained well bid, with the key feature being the lack of US and SA farmer selling, as producers await potentially higher prices in 2021. Corn and beans continue to fight for acreage this spring with the new crop bean/corn ratio at 2.61:1, heavily favoring soybeans. SOY
Prices moved to the highest level since June 2014 for soybeans, with meal and soyoil trading to new contract highs today.&nbs...
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...
