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The hits and misses from COP26. Will the commitments made at COP26 be enough to curb global warming? What will the Glasgow Climate Pact from COP26 accomplish? For further details see: COP26 Glasgow Climate Pact: What You Need To Know
The fertilizer market is seeing prices at or near record levels due to a variety of supply and demand factors. Several supply issues are contributing to the growth in fertilizer prices. Strong commodity prices allow for larger input prices, so farmers can be relatively less concer...
The September USDA World Agricultural Supply Demand Survey, known as the September WASDE, is widely considered to provide benchmark predictions for the report’s respective crop year. U.S. farmers and ag market participants look to the report to guide major decisions about when ...
U.S. farmers are facing their second harvest season during the COVID-19 pandemic and this year brings additional uncertainty. To help farmers and food workers, USDA plans to invest $700 million in grants to provide relief to those affected. Producers are using the short-dated new-...
From a year ago, the corn ending stocks to usage has gone from 13.75% to 7.4%, one of the lowest on record. If we look at the CVL Index, which measures corn volatility, we can see it reached a high of 57 recently, more than double compared to 2019 and early 2020 levels. The Grain ...
After the pandemic’s initial spending splurge, the bill is due, and global growth is mean-reverting again. Treasury yields are confirming the disinflationary ride as we thought that they should. Similar trends are unfolding in the great hot north, with Canadian government b...
Bim/E+ via Getty Images As the markets progress in Tuesday's trading session, the investment community can note that the agriculture space as a whole is trading to the downside as wheat, soybean, and corn futures are all negative, -5.11%, -4.86%, and -5.84%, respectively. For t...
MSCI US REIT Index rallied 2.7% in June, which marks an impressive run of eight consecutive monthly increases. The Russell 3000 Index jumped 2.5% in June, the fifth straight monthly advance. Comparing GMI to US stocks and bonds shows that global asset allocation remains competitiv...
One risk on investors’ minds hasn’t been much of a factor in nearly a decade: inflation. By the end of 2020, despite real assets regaining some ground, the return deficit was –6.8%. Actually, when evaluated on multiple dimensions—inflation sensitivity, ...
Murilo Gualda /iStock via Getty Images Agriculture related stocks join other commodities in falling sharply in the wake of the Federal Reserve's higher interest rate outlook. Sugar (SB1:COM) and coffee (KC1:COM) futures slide to three-week lows, and other crop futures from soybeans to corn al...