THE OPEN May beans: 8 1/2 lower May meal: 3.90 lower May soyoil: 3 higher May corn: 2 higher May wheat: 3 3/4 lower The markets opened with more technical selling in the soy complex and wheat. Corn spreads remained firm while bean spreads leaked lower. Oilshare corrected as funds booked profits, spurred on by weaker crude oil prices, and lower canola prices. SOY
The main feature in the soy complex was that of correcting oilshare, particularly after soyoil futures put in a rally that found fund selling. May oilshare trades to 39.59% while crush trades lower to 74c/bu. Spreads leaked lower as the lack of export activity and much lower Brazilian premiums finds funds on the s...
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...
