THE OPEN May beans: 4 higher Ma meal: 2.20 lower May soyoil: 31 lower May corn: 1/2 lower May wheat: 4 lower The markets opened as called with wheat prices lower weighing on corn, and beans steady to better. Soyoil futures turned higher following a firmer crude oil trade. Buy bean/sell wheat spread trade was active, along with a return to buying soyoil/selling meal. SOY
The soy complex traded higher on the day, with product and beans tame at the start of the session. July oilshare traded to 40.50% on a firmer note, with crush at 60c/bu. May bean prices firm from the open, continuing to congest from $14.00-$14.45. However, into the midday hour soyoil pric...
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...
