I hope this link works for you because it is interesting, showing the role of futures traders and hedge funds who we know jack around the PM markets too, just like they jack around the food markets - and did I mention the petroleum markets too. 

 In the link below, aside from the article itself, perhaps you might want to begin with the yes/no decision chart that you can click on if you scroll down a bit where the left-hand columns has a click-on icon titled ‘The world of food pricing’. 

If you look at that flow chart, I hope that cannuckgold and also those Goldtent readers from the U.S. involved with agricultural-scale production of food will note that if you are a North American grain farmer expecting a bumper crop this year (the starting point of the flow chart linked below), there are not many routes that get you to the end result that says in the flow chart that ‘You win’.  The flow chart shows many ways that lead you to the final result of ‘Out of luck’.

I have the utmost respect for the food producers on our continent.  But I regret very much that they too are the victims of the blue-suited computer whiz boys on the trading floors and the other crooks in the commodities world.  As I’ve said before on other topics - too bad.    Best wishes, all.   Equiz.

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