THE OPEN November beans: 10 higher December meal: steady December soyoil: 60 higher December corn: 2 higher December wheat: 2 lower Prices opened as expected but rallies did not get too far as some position-evening was noted on the rally. Moderate buying activity was noted early on the back of continuing chatter about production declines for Russia. Most traders are in the mindset that USDA will trim yields for corn, while bean yields may be left unattended. SOY
The major feature in the soy complex was that of higher oilshare once again. Buy soyoil/sell meal put oilshare values in Sep up to 46.78%. Sep. crush values traded at 1.16c. Soyoil gained on meal all day as prices...
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...
