THE OPEN Nov beans: 30 lower Dec meal: 5.90 lower Dec soyoil: 159 pts lower Dec corn: 14 3/4 lower Dec wheat: 12 1/4 lower Prices opened as called and worked lower on weaker technical considerations with more downside follow-through as sell-stops were triggered in corn, wheat, and beans. Oilshare worked higher as meal prices fell. Losses in soyoil values were more moderate, and lower prices found more buyers and a mid-session comeback on bargain hunting and short-covering. SOY
The major feature of trade for the soy complex was that of higher oilshare as meal prices fell further based on fundamentals and chart based technical selling activity. The downtrend on the meal chart re...
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...
