Similar to the dramatic growth of mutual funds in the 1990’s and exchange-traded funds in the 2000’s, investment options for exposure to the global agriculture sector continue to multiply. Today’s landscape
Based on just released data from the USDA, the 2010 US corn crop is projected to be essentially flat at 12.15 billion bushels. Given current corn demand estimates for food, feed and exports, there would be only
Tight commodity stocks, sustained higher price levels and a fight for commodity acreage are all currently hallmarks of the soybean and oilseed industry – and will continue to be for at least for the next few years, experts
Over the past two years a fundamental change has occurred in the corn and vegetable oils markets: biofuels producers operating near break-even have become the price-setters … and the prices they are setting are tied directly
Food inflation rates have been on the rise over the past 6 months, both at the consumer level as well as the wholesale level. Wholesale prices, as measured by the Bureau of Labor Statistics Producer Price Index for Food
Wallace Tyner is an agricultural economist and professor at Purdue University whose wide-ranging experience working with commodity, energy and policy issues has led him to play a key role in advising national
The government report on wholesale prices, the Producer Price Index (PPI), is released around the middle of the following month, and reports on the change in a broad range of prices. The latest report (for May) indicates that