THE OPEN July beans: 7 higher July meal: .30 higher July soyil: 84 higher July corn: 9 1/2 higher July wheat: 6 3/4 higher The markets opened as expected with prices turning higher led by July corn as the sale of corn to China supported bullspreads. Soyoil posts a new contract high from the start of the trading session. Bean bullspreads caved after the start of the day taking July beans for a mixed ride from a higher start to lower on the day. Oilshare found some midday profit-taking. SOY
The soy complex entered into a choppy day of trade as bullspreads weakened, breaking July beans back to the lower end of recent support levels and eventually into new lows when sell-stop...
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...
