THE OPEN March beans: 3 1/2 higher March meal: .40 lower March soyoil: 23 higher March corn: 1 1/4 higher March wheat: 5 lower Prices opened as expected with early profit-taking. Buy soyoil/sell meal trade was on again, with more buy corn and beans/sell wheat. Higher oilshare was a major feature as soyoil prices rebounded on recent buying activity, higher palm, and firmer crude oil. Outside markets garnered most of the focus with the US dollar continuing to firm while stocks jumped on stimulus hopes. SOY
The key feature of trade in the soy complex was that of higher oilshare as March soyoil prices traded back over 45c. May oilshare traded to 33.86% while crush values firmed to...
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...
