This month’s Barclays commodity report contained the following interesting graph. It shows how the sectors of energy, agriculture, livestock, industrial and precious metals in exchange-traded products funds have changed since the first of this year. The title of the report was also interesting: The Commodity Refiner. From an age of shortage to an era of [...]
NOTE that in April of 2012, Stanford University’s Center on Food Security and Environment presented a talk by Rosamond Naylor titled “Biofuels: the Changing Nature of Agricultural Demand”. This presentation was quite thorough in explaining how mandated biofuels policies are changing the economics and world demand of food commodities. Thank you to Dr. Naylor for [...]
This week The Colbert Report was on top of this drought story by interviewing Iowa Ag economist Bruce Babcock via satellite. Babcock told Colbert that “I’ve just been riding my bike through a bunch of corn fields in Iowa and the crop looks like it’s a disaster.” The two later moved on to the subject [...]
