THE OPEN May beans: 2 higher May meal: steady May soyoil: 48 higher May corn: 3 1/2 lower May wheat: 7 lower The soy complex opened as called with prices placing new contract highs in soyoil with an upside break-out in the bean market out of recent congestive trade. Opening highlights included new contract highs in soyoil and further strength in oil share. Grains were reluctant followers, with recent new shorts in corn and wheat covering on soy complex strength. SOY
The soy complex put in an opening rally from the start of the trading session, with May beans exiting out of a period of consolidation (triangle formation), to the upside on further technical buying led by soy...
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...
