THE OPEN May beans: 9 3/4 lower May meal: 3.50 lower May soyoil: 21 lower May corn: 4 1/2 lower May wheat: 1 1/2 lower The markets opened lower with more fund selling as charts were building in resistance and rains are forecast to fall in Argentina and the US plains. Beans were losing the most, but soyoil futures came roaring back from a hard break to trade to new contract highs. The strength in soyoil futures caught bears in beans flat-footed, which produced a short-covering rally in beans and meal. Corn prices followed, but grains remained generally weak led by wheat. SOY
The soy complex worked lower today led by beans and meal. Soyoil prices broke hard at first but managed an earl...
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...
