Positive Future News #914 (Feature Photo – Corn – CCA SA 3.0 Unported)
The global trade of food commodities is like a game of dominoes. For example, escalating production of wheat and soybeans, from problems in Ukraine and Russia, pushes some acres from corn into wheat and soybeans. As a result corn acres are less and insecure China, wants to buy more corn. China just announced the purchase of over 1 million metric tonnes of corn from the U.S. It will take roughly 330,000 acres to produce that amount of corn. The following report from AgWeb helps you get the picture: