THE OPEN July beans: 26 lower July meal: 1.80 lower July soyoil: 205 pts lower July corn: 6 1/2 lower July wheat: 17 lower The markets opened lower and continued to hit sell-stops which triggered lower trade. Corn continued to find scale down commercial pricing interest as more commodity prices fell across the board, including crude which was down hard. There is more chatter that commodity prices may have found some interim tops. SOY
The soy complex closed at the weakest of extremes and prices continued to notch lower as more stops were triggered. Spreads were lower with the July/Nov bean inverse weakening down to 1.66c. July/Dec meal inverses trades 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...
