THE OPEN November beans: 25 lower December meal: 5.60 lower December soyoil: 130 pts lower December corn: 13 lower December wheat: 14 lower Prices opened lower as values overall remain in large sideways patterns. End-users sought coverage as weather still remains questionable. A private guess-time from the firm CWG forecast the corn yield at 181.3 bpa, pointing out that growing conditions in the eastern-belt promoted the ability for this higher trendline yield, and the market has to consider it. Beans trade lower as traders unwind previous buy bean/sell corn trade. SOY
The soy complex traded lower on the day as rains in the Great Lakes and Canada sent canola prices tumbling.&nb...
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...