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Michael Snyder: This week has provided two very clear examples of why it is so important to keep on preparing. In the United States, the historic drought ravaging the central part of the country is absolutely devastating our crops. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Read more…
Michael Snyder: Are you ready for the next major global food crisis? The price of corn hit an all-time record high on Thursday. So did the price of soybeans. The price of corn is up about Read more…
Tom Essaye: One of the biggest stories in the media over the past week or so has been the tremendous drought affecting the nation’s Corn Belt. The spike in crop prices has been dramatic … Read more…
Michael Snyder: Why is the heartland of the United States experiencing such a horrific drought right now? At the moment, approximately 61 percent of the entire nation Read more…
Sean Brodrick: Dang, it’s been a dry summer. And just as bad, it’s hot — so hot and dry, that crops are withering across America’s farm belt. Therein lies opportunity for investors, which I’ll get to in a minute. First … Read more…
Michael Snyder: All over America the corn (NYSEARCA:CORN) is dying. If drought conditions persist in the middle part of the country, wheat Read more…
Michael Snyder: It is too early to panic, but if there is not a major change in the weather very soon we could be looking at widespread crop failures throughout the United States this summer. Record heat and crippling drought are absolutely devastating crops Read more…
Don Miller: For most Americans, the cost of food hasn’t always been such a big deal. For the better part of the last 30 years, food supplies were plentiful and the economy provided enough wealth to keep cupboards stocked. Read more…
Stoyan Bojinov: The world is always ending, according to someone out there. The current environment is full of those who think the end is nigh–at least for the robust global economy to which we’ve grown accustomed. Let’s suppose that our economy is about to fall off a cliff, resulting in general chaos, Read more…
Jared Cummans: Commodity investing has become increasing popular in recent years as the exchange traded world has opened this once elusive asset class wide open. Still, one of the most effective ways to maintain exposure to your favorite hard asset remains through futures contracts. For the average Read more…
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…
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…
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…
Jared Cummans: Cotton, the fluffy commodity, was one of the most talked about investments of 2010. With a number of factors combining, cotton prices spiked to historic highs last year and led to a number of investors jumping in on the trend, only to get burned when cotton tanked midway through 2011. Read more…
Kevin Kerr: When the clock strikes midnight on December 31 this year, many traders, fund managers and individual investors will be glad to ring in the New Year and hopefully better profits in 2012. This year has proven to be a challenge for even seasoned traders who have been trying to ride the volatility wave Read more…
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