[baddog 219]

[Buckeye McFrog]

I am sure a surge in food prices will send Obama’s polling down another 5 to 8 points. In that case I shall grin and bear it.

[blam]

It's Always Something:

Complexity Theorists Predict Food Crisis, Riots and Civil Unrest By April 2013

[mamelukesabre]

I don’t understand why the potash corp of saskatchewan would have food price exposure.

[ErnBatavia]

We did a road trip just after the Independence Day weekend and were shocked at the stunted corn crop is South Dakota and southern Minnesota....much of it was well under two feet tall; I'm not a farmer, but I know this isn't good.

Later, traveling down I-29 into Iowa/Nebraska we discovered that the massive spring flooding was still in full force - you could look in any direction across the "lakes" and see just the peaks of barn roofs....total devastation for an entire region.

[southernnorthcarolina]

MOO.

No, that's not commentary, it's the ticker symbol of the Market Vectors Agribusiness ETF. It holds shares in most of the companies mentioned in the article; its largest holdings include Deere, Potash, Monsanto, Syngenta, and Mosaic.

MOO's a good way to play rising food commodity prices, in my opinion. Of course, you could buy the commodities themselves, but they are highly volatile. Safer to go with major publicly held corporations whose seed, fertilizer, and farm equipment businesses may benefit from a long-term uptrend in commodity prices.

[Dr. Thorne]

Keep in mind that we are converting a full 40% of our corn crop to ethanol instead of using it for food. Plus, the Texas drought is going to influence beef prices which will end up higher in a few months. Drought Dries Up Livestock Herds In West Texas

In other words, stock up on food now! Hopefully, you have already stocked up on the items in my tagline.

[dagogo redux]

Anyone still worried about their portfolio is obviously not in tune with the likely ramifications of either a win OR a loss for Obama in 2012.

[Obadiah]

The answer, of course, is that we need more Ethanol. We need to burn our food!