THE OPEN Nov beans: 2 higher Dec meal: 2.50 higher Dec soyoil: 60 lower Dec corn: 1/2 lower Dec wheat: 10 lower The markets opened as expected with profit-taking in wheat and wheat/corn spreads. Oilshare continued to leak lower as charts leaned friendly for meal and sideways for soyoil. Buy bean/sell corn and buy meal/sell soyoil trade continued throughout the session. Outside markets were weaker with stocks down sharply on geopolitical tensions over current events in Afghanistan. Prices turned lower from higher as bulls took profits into midday. SOY
The main feature in the soy complex was that of profit-taking in oilshare. Sep crush trades steady at 1.04c while oil...
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...
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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...
