Thursday, August 05, 2010

Buy food.....

Beat the rush.

Russia and China not exporting food. Leads to shortages and it remains to be seen how much food is bought by the world . Time will tell but don't bet on a large supply falling out of the sky.

Two Mega-Trends: Eastern Appetites and Western Demographics | 5 Min. Forecast
As you can see, China used to export millions of tons of corn every year. No longer. That's a potential big catalyst for corn producers. Also, the chart to the right of that shows you China's climbing imports of soybeans. This, too, is a commodity that China used to export. Needless to say, China is a big market with a lot of mouths to feed. So if China is now regularly coming to, say, the corn market as a buyer, where it once was a seller, that's a tectonic shift.

“Another chart was about India, another big market. It shows you how prices for food have risen sharply and how Indian crop yields -- in this case for rice -- trail those of the rest of the world.


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