THE OPEN March beans: 8 lower March meal: 3.90 lower March soyoil: 59 lower March corn: 3 lower March wheat: 11 higher The markets opened as expected but found profit-taking heading into a long weekend and calls for a slightly wetter forecast. Weaker soyoil prices pressured beans, while falling crush values were negative as well. Wheat prices reversed from contract highs turning lower by the early part of the trading session. Funds took advantage of business announcements to take something off the table for corn and beans. SOY
The main feature for the soy complex was that of sharply weaker soyoil prices. Funds remain the longest in soyoil for now, while charts conti...
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...
