THE OPEN March beans: 4 higher March meal: 2.50 higher March soyoil: 41 lower March corn: 1 3/4 lower March wheat: 9 lower The markets opened on a mixed note with an adjustment in recent buy corn/sell bean trade, and a technically weak performance in wheat weighing on corn. The higher US dollar continues to weigh on wheat, while funds continue to have small positions either side of even. SOY
The major feature in the soy complex was that of lower oilshare as traders continue to unwind recent buy soyoil/sell meal spread trades. May oilshare falls to 33.49% from values over 34.0%, while crush trades to 63.84c/bu. Farmer protests in Argentina could promote another exp...
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...
