Tight commodity stocks, sustained higher price levels and a fight for commodity acreage are all currently hallmarks of the soybean and oilseed industry – and will continue to be for at least for the next few years, experts

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Over the past two years a fundamental change has occurred in the corn and vegetable oils markets: biofuels producers operating near break-even have become the price-setters … and the prices they are setting are tied directly

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Food inflation rates have been on the rise over the past 6 months, both at the consumer level as well as the wholesale level. Wholesale prices, as measured by the Bureau of Labor Statistics Producer Price Index for Food

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Wallace Tyner is an agricultural economist and professor at Purdue University whose wide-ranging experience working with commodity, energy and policy issues has led him to play a key role in advising national

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The government report on wholesale prices, the Producer Price Index (PPI), is released around the middle of the following month, and reports on the change in a broad range of prices. The latest report (for May) indicates that

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