THE OPEN March beans: 12 higher March meal: .30 lower March soyoil; 63 higher March corn: 13 higher March wheat: 8 1/2 higher The markets opened as called with corn/bean spread trade still a fan-favorite. End-of-month position-squaring may have kept corn from putting in further opening gains, but prices remained well supported on pullbacks. Bean inverses found pressure as well, but corn spreads continued to hold up. Soyoil futures broke lower as beans once again put in a fairly choppy and weak performance. SOY
The soy complex opened as called but beans once again turned lower from higher, with March triggering sell-stops with trade back below key support at $13.45. The bean market co...
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...
