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Jared Cummans: The agriculture sector has long been a popular place for commodity trading. After all, it was with agricultural futures that commodity trading got its start. Farmers had originally used these contracts to help offset any losses in crop yields. Now, the agricultural space has blossomed into a Read more…
Rick Mills: As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information. Our agriculture system is concentrated on producing a very few staple crops – there is a very serious lack of crop diversity. Corn, wheat, rice and soy are the main staples and production is Read more…
Jared Cummans: 2011 was a tough year for commodities, with the majority of investors watching their positions turn sour as equity markets wreaked havoc in the commodity space. But while finding gains for the year was a tall order, it is clear that investors are looking more and more to exchange Read more…
Alan Price: Each New Year brings with it a number of questions for investors: Am I investing in the right place? Should I be taking more or less of a risk? Should I have a more diverse portfolio? Read more…
Kevin McElory: In 2011, for the first time ever, more corn (NYSEArca:CORN) was made into ethanol than consumed as food (for humans) or feed (for animals) in the United States. Read more…
Jonathan Yates: Afirca’s emerging middle class presents a massive new marketplace for biotech companies such as Monsanto (NYSE:MON) and Syngenta (NYSE:SYT). The profit potential for these stocks has been detailed on previous articles on www.emergingmoney.com Read more…
David Gillie: No matter what, people have to eat – 7 billion of them now globally. You can’t eat your iPhone. You can’t eat your gold coins. And you can’t eat oil. Read more…
Michael Johnston: The ETF industry finished 2011 with assets of about $1.06 trillion according to data recently released by the ETF Industry Association. Total assets grew by about 5% over the previous year, when the industry stood at $1.01 trillion. Net cash inflows for the year totaled about $117.6 billion Read more…
US stock futures point to a slightly lower open Wednesday after yesterday’s 1.5% gain to kick off 2012. Improving US economic data has been one catalyst for the rally over past few weeks, and that continued yesterday with a strong ISM survey. On the flip side, Read more…
Sara Nunnally: Farm life for me isn’t the same as farm life for actual farmers. I’m working on a small garden… But for me, it’s about having all my animals together — dogs, horses, cats — on a peaceful plot of land here in the Midwest. Read more…
Daniela Pylypczak: As the calendars prepare to flip forward, it appears as if 2011 will go down as a record-breaking year for the ETF industry on the product development front. More than 300 new ETPs began trading this year, shattering the previous record set in 2010. But despite the record size of Read more…
Michael Johnston: For many investors, 2011 was an up-and-down year; risky assets came racing out of the gates, but a string of negative developments erased all of the early gains during a chaotic summer. Heading in to 2012, the outlook is mixed; there are plenty of reasons to be optimistic about the Read more…
Richard Heinberg: The current global food system is highly fuel- and transport-dependent. Fuels will almost certainly become less affordable in the near and medium term, making the current, highly fuel-dependent agricultural production system less secure and food less affordable. It is therefore Read more…
Wyatt Research Staff: Farmers who spent the year growing corn or milking cows may not have noticed that the U.S. government nearly shut down or that Europe is in a full-fledged debt crisis. That’s because they were too busy turning record profits. Read more…
US stock futures point to a higher open on Wall Street Thursday on the heels of a sharp three-day decline in the markets. S&P E-Minis are 13 handles higher, adding heavily to pre-market gains after a series of data point out at 8:30 am ET. Perhaps at this stage, no more bad news out of Europe can be Read more…
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