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Add Soft Wheat To Your Hard Asset List
Real-time Monetary Inflation: 1.7%

Marie Antoinette's insensitivity to peasants' lack of bread, among other things, was paid for with a trip to the guillotine. "Let them eat cake" was an impolitic thing to say during the Reign of Terror. Not so now.

Brad Zigler Monday, 01 March 2010
 
More Gains For Ag Stocks In 2010?
Performance Trend LinesAs 2009 draws to a close, we take a second look at the year's best-performing ag stocks.
  • Why ag stocks missed out on 2009's equity market low
  • Which ag stocks have outperformed this year
  • Could DBA outperform MOO in 2010?
Brad Zigler Monday, 28 December 2009
 
Nusbaum: Buying Agriculture
Roger NusbaumFinancial adviser and TheStreet.com contributor Roger Nusbaum sees opportunities in agriculture and other hard asset categories.
  • Oil is going to $80
  • Gold still has a place
  • Monsanto as a core holding
Lara Crigger Friday, 29 May 2009
 
Whither Wheat?
WheatThis is supposed to be prime time for wheat farmers. Instead, it's looking pretty dire.
  • Early harvests are bad ...
  • ... Spring plantings are miserable ...
  • ... But prices won't rally much
Julian Murdoch Thursday, 21 May 2009
 
Good Times Return For Commodities (Stocks)
Real-time Monetary Inflation (per annum): 8.0%

In case you haven't noticed, several commodities have swung to a bullish mode now, particularly RBOB gasoline, the soybean complex and corn. Less well-developed are the trends in the petroleum complex, softs such as coffee, sugar and orange juice, feeder cattle and wheat.

Brad Zigler Tuesday, 19 May 2009
 
Ag Roundup
WheatCorn, soybeans & wheat all popped at the end of last week. Where's the beef? Or perhaps the bull?
  • Wet weather and corn plantings
  • Wheat won't sustain its rally
  • Uncertainty and soy
Julian Murdoch Monday, 04 May 2009
 
Gaming Grains

WheatWith the flooding in Fargo swamping wheat and the USDA prospective plantings on tap, HAI examines the outlook for corn, soybeans and wheat.

  • Why the massive flood isn't moving prices
  • The global wheat glut
  • Soybean fever
Julian Murdoch Monday, 30 March 2009
 
The Urge To Converge
Real-time Inflation Indicator (per annum): 7.3%

Last week, the futures regulator, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, started soliciting nominations for a new subcommittee charged with examining the causes of poor cash-futures convergence in some agricultural commodity markets.

Brad Zigler Monday, 16 March 2009
 
Free Fall Or Parachute?
Financial chartA look at the S&P GSCI's Commodity Perspective Report for January 2009.
  • The contango headwind
  • The energy drag
  • A few notable winners
Julian Murdoch Friday, 06 February 2009
 
A Real Commodity Moneymaker
Real-time Inflation Indicator (per annum): 9.2%

Wednesday's column ("2008 Was Golden ... Barely") left some readers with the impression that there were hardly any winners among the exchange-traded products (ETPs) tracking commodities.

Brad Zigler Thursday, 08 January 2009
 
Considering China
PodcastAssociate Editor Dave Nadig talks with Kevin Kerr about the giant Chinese stimulus package, the potential for more OPEC cuts, and whether Jim Rogers is right to be sweet on sugar.

 

Administrator Tuesday, 11 November 2008
 
Index Fund Sponsor Likes Ags
Ashmead Pringle is the founder and president of GreenHaven Commodity Services, Inc., the sponsor of the GreenHaven Continuous Commodity Index Fund (AMEX: GCC), an exchange-traded portfolio tracking what used to be known as the CRB Index. In its last iteration, the Commodity Research Bureau's benchmark became an equal-weighted compendium of 17 commodity futures contracts. GCC commenced trading in January.
Brad Zigler Tuesday, 04 November 2008
 
Farewell Bid To Kansas City
You wouldn't think crude oil figures into the recipe for bread, but it does. Not that bread is baked on the floor of the Kansas City Board of Trade; it's just traded there. Or rather, the hard red winter wheat that's made into bread flour is traded there.
Brad Zigler Wednesday, 10 September 2008
 
Goin’ To Kansas City …
Wilbert Harrison put the City of Fountains in everybody's mind, and himself in the Rock ‘n Roll Hall of Fame, with his 1959 recording "Kansas City."
Brad Zigler Friday, 05 September 2008
 
Is Agriculture Still A Supermarket?
Image of fruits and vegetablesWhy we're in the midst of a breather from a raging bull market in agricultural commodities.
  • Proposed limits on speculative trading
  • Corn belt still tightening?
  • The FAO's crystal ball

 

Eli Neusner Thursday, 24 July 2008
 
Hey! We Found Corn!

The classic good news/bad news story played itself out Monday in the CBOT corn pit. Digesting the Agriculture Department's latest quarterly acreage report, corn futures gapped lower into limit-down territory, below $7.25 a bushel.

Brad Zigler Tuesday, 01 July 2008
 
Bearishly Bullish On Corn
Generic chartHardAssetsInvestor.com's Managing Editor Brad Zigler unearths what the recent Midwest flooding means for crop harvesting, in dollars and cents.
  • Comparing flood years
  • What's the upside?
  • The behavior of wheat
Brad Zigler Saturday, 28 June 2008
 
Wheat’s A Real Drag For JJG Investors
U.S. investors wanting to hedge against corn's recent surge without resorting to futures face a daunting challenge. They can't gain pure corn exposure. No, the best Yanks can do while hitting for the fences is to settle for a ground rule double.
Brad Zigler Thursday, 12 June 2008
 
Wheat Issues
Wheat IssuesThe Wall Street Journal noticed wheat rust this week, but there's a bit more to the story.
  • Your friend Ug99
  • Iran in the cross fire
  • The long-term threat

 

Julian Murdoch Thursday, 29 May 2008
 
Ag Update

We're in prime USDA report season, the seeds are going in the ground and investors are waffling.

  • Aftermath of the prospective plantings report
  • Crop progress and the biofuels update
  • The rice crisis
Julian Murdoch Thursday, 15 May 2008
 
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