Of all the stupid things we do, one of the most dangerous is this ethanol nonsense, in which we gleefully burn up our food supplies. For very little in the way of environmental impact I might add.

While endlessly low rates have failed to produce anything even resembling jobs growth or housing recovery, our new unintended consequence seems to be a higher tab for our daily bread (and coffee and vegetables and dairy and beef, etc).

Surging economies are bringing the farm economy back to life, even as the rest of the US struggles.

Farmer Brown here again.  October is off to a brutal start for the farm commodities.  Yesterday all of the agriculture contracts sold off hard after a blistering September rally – on average the soft commodities were down 2.8% on the session. But nothing compares to Friday’s drop in corn prices.  The December 2011 Corn contract…

There are three basic ways for most investors to play a potential Agriculture Boom, two of them being the most facile.

Pitchforks on backorder.

Light posting today.