SPREADS May crush firms to 75c/bu while oilshare trades to new highs at 39.97%. Inverses find stability. July/Nov trades from 1.56c to 1.60 1/2c, while May /July beans trades from 15c to 13 1/4c. July/Dec meal inverse trades from $31.20 up to $33.30. July/Dec corn trades from 42 3/4c inverse up to 38c, while May/July trades from 9 1/4c to 10 1/4c. May wheat/corn trades from 1.19c down to a closing price of 1.07c. PALM OIL May palm oil closes up 79 ringgits to 4,053 ringgit/mt. SGS estimated exports at 334,556 mt for March 1-10 which was down 18.4% from Feb 1-10. NEWS Stocks are 80 pts higher as the number of Americans seeking unemployment dropped by 42,000 from 754,000 the week before.&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...
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Accountability and a comprehensive approach to export programming
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