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• AgReview May 2012

  Volume 24, No. 4

  Big Ag Ends in Big Squeeze

  The bull market will be prolonged if foodies drive food production techniques back to the Stone Age.
  
  

  Regulating the Villains

  The role of futures markets has never been well understood by the general public. Nevertheless, the impact of speculators and other non-commercial participants on futures market price action and on consumer prices for fuel and food has been a widely studied topic during the last several years.
  
  

  A Banner Year Ahead for U.S. Soy Exports

  The outlook for U.S. soybean exports for the remainder of the current marketing year and in 2012/13 appears to be excellent. If the U.S. is able to produce a large soybean crop in 2012, it is possible U.S. soybean exports will approach a new record in the next marketing year.
  
  

  Farm Bill: Still North versus South

  In a mini legislative Civil War skirmish over the farm bill markup in the Senate Agriculture Committee, the North was victorious. The following question remains: Will the South rise again as the bill progresses? Or, perhaps the more pertinent question is whether the farm bill will progress at all.
  
  

  Grain Merchandisers’ Necessity and Resilience

  The environment of the grain merchant is constantly changing and that can be a positive fact, as progress itself is a process of change and new opportunities arise. The fact that grain merchandisers are utilized extensively by both producers and end users seems to be an indication that they serve a particularly useful purpose.
  
  

  Commodity Market Review

  There have been three factors dominating grain and soy futures markets for the last several weeks. In our view, early U.S. spring planting, deteriorating South American production prospects and China have been the primary market drivers during April.
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