THE OPEN May beans: 4 3/4 lower May meal: 2.10 lower May soyoil: 20 lower May corn: 4 1/4 lower May wheat: 12 lower The markets opened as expected with meal prices turning higher as traders booked profits on recent buy soyoil/sell meal trade. Wheat prices continued to sell-off in terms of technical chart points. Buy corn/sell wheat spread trade was a fan-favorite. Volumes remain low with holidays in China and Brazil. SOY
The soy complex traded mixed with traders taking profits on oilshare and meal rallying on the back of extreme cold temperatures. May crush trades up to 71c/bu while oilshare falls back under 35.0% to 34.90%. Higher palm oil initially lifted so...
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...
