Silver climbs 1.5% and gold ticks higher while soymeal firms and canola slides 1.3%, as WTI erases a chunk of yesterday's rally.
The Daily Board — Friday, July 24, 2026
Energy led the complex lower today as crude gave back a big piece of Thursday's spike, wheat slumped across all three boards, and the metals held a quiet safe-haven bid.
The Board
Grains & Oilseeds
🌽 Corn · Dec — 487'4 · unch · 0.00% ➖
🫘 Beans · Nov — 1253'4 · +9'6 · +0.78% 🟢⬆️
🐮 Meal · Dec — 335.20 · +3.3 · +0.99% 🟢⬆️
🍳 Oil · Dec — 72.01 · −0.97 · −1.33% 🔴⬇️
🌾 SRW · Sep — 678'0 · −18'2 · −2.62% 🔴⬇️
🍞 HRW · Sep — 745'2 · −14'4 · −1.91% 🔴⬇️
🥖 HRS · Sep — 714.25 · −15.75 · −2.16% 🔴⬇️
🥣 Oats · Dec — 342'4 · −1'4 · −0.44% 🔴⬇️
Prairie Crops
🌻 Canola · Nov — C$824.90 · −11.00 · −1.32% 🔴⬇️
🐮 Barley · wkly — ~C$230†/t · softer · n/a 🔴⬇️
Energy
🛢️ WTI · Sep — 89.31† · −2.88 · −3.12% 🔴⬇️
🔥 NatGas · Aug — 2.871 · −0.045 · −1.54% 🔴⬇️
Metals
🥇 Gold · Aug — 4,070.80 · +20.6 · +0.51% 🟢⬆️
🥈 Silver · Sep — 58.906 · +0.852 · +1.47% 🟢⬆️
Prices are Barchart settlements (marked "s" in source data) as of the Fri, July 24, 2026 close, per the Barchart EOD email received 3:47 PM CT. WTI is an intraday last trade, not a confirmed settle — flagged †. Alberta feed barley is a weekly FOB-farm cash read, not a daily print — flagged †.
The Read
🌽 Corn — 487'4, unch (0.00%) ➖ $CORN ( ▲ 0.17% )
Corn didn't move today — the front-month (the most actively traded contract) December contract closed flat against Thursday's settle.
Ethanol grind held steady, and export inspections stayed near their recent pace, giving traders no fresh reason to chase either side.
So what: a flat corn tape means today's move at your elevator is basis (the gap between your local cash bid and the futures price), not the board.
Watch: next week's crop condition ratings and any weekend rain across the Corn Belt.
🫘 Soybeans — 1253'4, +9'6 (+0.78%) 🟢⬆️ $SOYB ( ▲ 0.06% )
Beans firmed on the same story that's carried the complex most of the summer — steady Chinese demand chatter.
Crush (the margin a processor earns turning beans into meal and oil) margins stayed rich enough to keep domestic processors bidding even as wheat and crude sold off around them.
So what: every dime on the November contract moves new-crop cash bids and old-crop storage math alike — a quiet up day still helps the bin.
Watch: Monday's export inspections and any fresh signal on Chinese purchase volumes.
🐮 Soybean Meal — $335.20, +3.3 (+0.99%) 🟢⬆️
Meal carried the crush today, outpacing beans while oil fell — a clean split of the two products.
Protein-feed demand from cattle and hog feeders stayed firm, the usual driver when meal decouples from oil.
So what: firmer meal is a direct line to your ration cost if you're feeding — protein got a little pricier today.
Watch: the next crush report and whether meal keeps leading the product split.
🍳 Soybean Oil — 72.01, −0.97 (−1.33%) 🔴⬇️
Oil gave back nearly a percent and a half, tracking crude's much bigger slide rather than anything biofuel-specific.
Oil's tight leash to crude and biofuel/renewable-diesel economics held today — when energy sells off hard, oil follows.
So what: biodiesel blending economics ease slightly when oil is cheaper, but today's move is about crude, not policy.
Watch: crude's next move and any renewable-fuel-standard headlines.