Grain markets performing like those of recent months once again reinforce skeptics about
anyone’s ability to forecast grain price moves, even when undertaken by the most astute and experienced participants.
Once also considered nearly untouchable, farm program spending by the federal government suddenly looms as an easy area where spending cuts might be made.
One of the most important aspects
of crop price analysis is the so-called spillover effect represented by the self-correcting impact on the supply side.
As terrifying as having a nuclear meltdown and resulting radiation contamination over the immediate area might be, assuring an adequate supply of food to that nation of 128 million people also has to loom large.
The Census Bureau data on marriage ages and households are alone sufficient to make for a new understanding of how these factors affect the food business.