Highlights include:
- Former editor John Buckley looks at how commodities, and The Public Ledger, have changed over the past fifty years.
- Veteran investor Jim Rogers believes higher agricultural commodity prices are inevitable.
- Consultants and analysts tell us what the big trends in commodities will be in coming years.
- Why going it alone as a trading or brokerage firm can pay great dividends.
- Top CME, Euronext Liffe and industry officials believe cleared OTC derivatives will take the ag arena by storm.
- We ask whether biofuels are set to be the next globally traded commodity.
- Goretti Guasch, executive director of the International Nut and Dried Fruit Council, says Asia promises to be a great market for nut sellers in years to come.
- We quiz the chiefs of softs groups: Nestor Osorio - International Coffee Organisation; Jan Vingerhoets - International Cocoa Organisation; Peter Baron - International Sugar Organisation; and Manuja Peiris - International Tea Committee.
- Mayo Schmidt, chief executive of Viterra, predicts a wave of global consolidation in the agribusiness sector.
- Newly-appointed Noble chief executive Ricardo Leiman says his native Brazil will be the hub to sell oilseeds and other agricultural commodities to booming Asian markets.
- What grains and pulses could be produced in high enough quantities to put a dent in global hunger?
- And much more…
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