THE OPEN November beans: 2 higher December meal: 3.70 higher December soyoil: 70 lower December corn: 5 higher December wheat: 5 1/2 higher The markets opened as called but continued the same overnight action with soyoil futures breaking more which took beans lower as well. Political pressures continue to weigh on soyoil, as the Biden administration delayed the annual rulemaking process to decide on US biofuel blending mandates. Uncertainty never leads to a verification of trend, which at this point for soyoil had been higher. IN grains, wheat gained on corn, though Brazil's domestic corn prices are continuing to climb higher. SOY
The major feature in the soy complex was...
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...
