Category: Agricultural Commodities
The analysis published under this category are as follows.
Tuesday, November 24, 2015
Corn Commodity Price Popping Higher / Commodities / Agricultural Commodities
By: Austin_Galt
The corn price finally looks set to pop a lot higher so let's look at the short term action with the daily chart and then refresh ourselves of the long term outlook which remains unchanged.
Tuesday, September 29, 2015
Peak Food Island Earth / Commodities / Agricultural Commodities
By: Ned_W_Schmidt
Island Earth is our latest article on the concept of Peak Food, which was introduced in two previous articles. We do recommend reading those other two articles in conjunction with this one: Peak Food 2 and Peak Food, An Introduction
Below we will observe that Island Earth is a major component of Peak Food. Reality is that Island Earth, combined with a myriad of other factors, has serious negative implications for our world's ability over time to satisfy human demand for food at affordable prices. Today, many ignore the reality of Peak Food. For the farsighted investors, Peak Food offers an investment opportunity that can provide benefits for generations.
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Sunday, August 09, 2015
Agricultural Commodities Prices Prepare To Launch Higher Again / Commodities / Agricultural Commodities
By: Austin_Galt
As outlined in previous analysis, the price of the agricultural commodities of corn, soybeans and wheat look to have already kicked off the bear rallies. From previous longer term analysis, we are expecting these bear rallies to be big ones.
Prices have come back down and now look ready to launch into the next stage of these rallies so let's revise the technicals of each commodity using the daily charts.
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Wednesday, July 22, 2015
Winning the Hunger Games - How to Choose Successful Agriculture Investments / Commodities / Agricultural Commodities
By: The_Energy_Report
Starting with the premise that people have to eat, The Agletter Editor Tom Wallace has found productive fields in the many subsectors of the ag investment space. Without discounting the risks, he explains to The Energy Report how investors can recognize and hedge those risks. Wallace also names three favorite companies that span the spectrum, from planting the seed to foodstuff.
The Energy Report: Is investing in agriculture like investing in any other commodity, or do investors new to the space need to get familiar with special considerations?
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Sunday, July 12, 2015
Corn, Soybeans, Wheat Agricultural Commodities Price Forecasts / Commodities / Agricultural Commodities
By: Austin_Galt
The prices of agricultural commodities of corn, soybeans and wheat have all exploded higher recently. This has been expected and was laid out in analysis back in February 2015. Now that the rallies have kicked off let’s revise the technicals of all three soft commodities.
Tuesday, May 26, 2015
Introduction to Peak Food / Commodities / Agricultural Commodities
By: Ned_W_Schmidt
Your high-tech toy watch won't buy you an egg. To date, the U.S. is on course to destroy 40,721,073 birds, mainly laying hens. Yes, elves at USDA do like precision in their numbers. Those birds are the casualty of pathogenic avian influenza outbreak. Despite the state of today's technology, eggs still come from chickens not from factories or 3-D printers. And eggs are not the only Agri- Commodity that has defied both technology and conventional wisdom. By the way, U.S. egg prices are up 120% or more in the past month.
Tuesday, February 24, 2015
Wheat Commodity Price Technical Trend Forecast / Commodities / Agricultural Commodities
By: Austin_Galt
Wheat is the Big Daddy of the agricultural commodity sector. World trade in wheat is greater than that of all other crops combined while it is grown on more land than any other food.
Let’s analyse the technical's of this commodity behemoth using the yearly, monthly and weekly charts.
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Monday, February 23, 2015
Soybean Commodity Price Technical Outlook / Commodities / Agricultural Commodities
By: Austin_Galt
Soybeans or soya beans to some. Most people probably associate them with soy milk and soy sauce. Mmm. I feel like some Chinese food already! These are just two examples of its many uses.Let’s take a top down approach to the analysis beginning with the big picture yearly chart.
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Monday, February 16, 2015
Corn Commodity Chart Analysis / Commodities / Agricultural Commodities
By: Austin_Galt
The corn price has been hammered over the past couple of years which has meant the winter hiatus this year in the Corn Belt has been a bit gloomy. But if my read on the technicals is correct then some momentary joy is on the way.
I expect the price of corn to bob up over the coming months but if I were a farmer in Iowa I would be making hay while the sun shines as I expect these coming higher prices to be fleeting before price once again collapses into final lows.
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Monday, December 08, 2014
Agri-Equities: New All Time High / Commodities / Agricultural Commodities
By: Ned_W_Schmidt
China now surpasses the U.S. in real economic terms. "Real", most simply defined, is the production and consumption of actual goods and services with prices ignored. In that "real" process the Chinese economy becomes a receptacle for the resources of the world, tangible and human. Some in the world, like Agri-Equities, that service those needs have benefitted, and will certainly do so in the future. Those that sell to the biggest customers in the world, China, will be the success stories. Top tier Agri-Equities are one of those beneficiaries. Our index of First Tier Agri-Equities, as shown in chart below, is at a new, all time high for the second month. That action was recently confirmed by composite Agri-Equity Index also hitting a new all time high recently.
Monday, July 28, 2014
Inflation - Are Commodities Talking to Us? / Commodities / Agricultural Commodities
By: Ned_W_Schmidt
Markets often do talk to us, if only we would listen. Our ears serve as only part of listening. An open mind is also required. Regrettably, minds receptive to new thoughts and questions have been somewhat outmoded in the investment world for many years. Why else do so many seem to ignore what commodities are saying?
Sunday, June 01, 2014
How Global Agri-Business Destroys Farming / Politics / Agricultural Commodities
By: Global_Research
Colin Todhunter writes: A new review carried out by the organization GRAIN reveals that small farms produce most of the world’s food. However, they are currently squeezed onto less than a quarter of the world’s farmland. The world is fast losing farms and farmers through the concentration of land into the hands of the rich and powerful. If we do nothing to reverse this trend, the world will lose its capacity to feed itself.
Tuesday, May 27, 2014
Agri-Foods Dramatic Price Rise During 2014 / Commodities / Agricultural Commodities
By: Ned_W_Schmidt
Agri-Commodities Prices Winning - Or, how long does it take the Street to identify an elephant in the room? Apparently the answer to that question is a time period longer than should be the case. As portrayed in the chart below, Agri-Food prices have been rising fairly dramatically thus far this year. With an average gain of about 10% since the beginning of the year, eating is becoming far more expensive. Rather than a short-term phenomenon, higher prices for Agri-Foods over time are part of the future, an unavoidable one.
Tuesday, March 25, 2014
2014 Year of Commodities (March Update) / Commodities / Agricultural Commodities
By: Ned_W_Schmidt
That 2013 was a year when equities ruled supreme is now well recorded history. Generally speaking, expectations at the end of the year were that 2014 would be more of the same. Among the popularly reported forecasts were the S&P 500 going to 2,000 while $Gold would plunge to $1,050. While the calendar will ultimately decide the wisdom of those forecasts, reality is already casting doubt on them. Perhaps the numbers in those forecasts were inadvertently switched.
Monday, March 10, 2014
Agri-Commodity Prices New High! / Commodities / Agricultural Commodities
By: Ned_W_Schmidt
The Agri-Food Price Index hit an all time record high for the week ended 7 March. This index of Agri-Food prices is rather comprehensive in that it includes sixteen(16) important Agri-Commodities. That index is plotted in the chart below which covers the past almost two years.
Saturday, November 09, 2013
Monsanto’s Friends in High Places / Politics / Agricultural Commodities
By: MISES
Hunter Lewis writes: Many companies hope to send an employee into a government agency to influence regulation. How much better if the employee can actually shape government regulation to promote and sell a specific product! Monsanto seems to have accomplished this — and much more.
Monday, October 28, 2013
Agricultural Commodities - Grow It, And They Will Eat It / Commodities / Agricultural Commodities
By: Ned_W_Schmidt
"Build it, and they will come" has been the motivation for many dreams. Baseball fields, restaurants, and other follies have sprouted from belief in this concept. Much of the real estate industry of times now past lived by this philosophy. That worked until they did not come, and then the bankers came for the remains.
Monday, August 19, 2013
Case of the Missing Corn / Commodities / Agricultural Commodities
By: Ned_W_Schmidt
200 million bushels of corn suddenly disappear. Could the mystery of the disappearing corn be rich material for Erle Stanley Gardner? Probably not. Most of that disappearing corn was fantasy corn, existing only in the imagination of some forecasters. That missing corn was revealed in USDA's latest World Agricultural Supply & Demand Estimates(WASDE). Further, analysis of USDA's acreage certification report by Bryce Knorr of FarmFutures.com suggests that USDA estimates for U.S. corn acreage may be too high by as much as 2.7 million acres. Should Knorr be correct, another 300 million bushels of corn may disappear.
Thursday, August 01, 2013
How to Invest in Agriculture After the Potash Price Crash / Commodities / Agricultural Commodities
By: Money_Morning
Garrett Baldwin writes: Global commodity woes increased again on Tuesday after Russia's Uralkali broke up one of the world's largest potash partnerships and ended a marketing venture agreement with producers in Belarus.
This development changes how to invest in agriculture- as it has already sent investors fleeing from nutrient and fertilizer stocks this week.
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Wednesday, May 01, 2013
U.S. Corn Crop - Too Cold or Wet Yet / Commodities / Agricultural Commodities
By: Ned_W_Schmidt
Let us start by remembering the most important aspect of Agri-Commodities. They are not produced in a factory. Corn, today's example, is produced by placing a seed in dirt with the proper amount of water and nutrients. Of that complete process nothing happens til the seed is planted. If no seeds are planted, no corn. All that happens only once a year.