The cash market is tight, but it's not enough for farmers to get up off their tractor and (sell). Plus outside markets were higher, too.

Based on talk of index-fund buying, I would be inclined to be on the long side of the corn and beans.

Everybody had a tractor in the '40s. There's not much farming now. In the '40s and '50s you had more farmers than you had people working in the cities.

So far, the cracks in the housing market are not that great, but with inventories skyrocketing, that may not last long.

It's not just the market fluctuation. It's also what's going on with these big companies. Everyone's got questions about this.

African farmers need guaranteed markets for their farm produce