All Posts Tagged With: "agriculture"

Rick Rule on Commodities: Be Prudent, Study Hard, and Take Advantage of Volatility

Source: The Gold Report  

Investor Rick Rule, founder of Global Resource Investments, is legendary in the mining, energy, and exploration business. In this edited transcript from a presentation (10/10/08) for clients, Rule shares his thoughts on the current situation. Rick founded…

7Nov2008 | The Gold Report | 1 comment | Continued

Good News for Some Long-Term Potash Investors

By Andrew Mickey, Q1 Publishing

It’s been a wild year for fertilizer stocks. Many investors who have been loading up on agriculture stocks right along with the hedge and mutual funds have taken some big lumps over the past couple of…

1Nov2008 | Q1 Publishing | 0 comments | Continued

Tight Credit for Farmers Leads to Smaller Crops, Higher Prices and More Hunger

Tighter credit for farmers could worsen a global food crisis as smaller crop sizes cause prices to soar.

Many farmers have traditionally bought pre-season supplies such as seeds and fertilizer on credit and then paid off the debt with the…

28Oct2008 | Money Morning | 0 comments | Continued

Investing in Commodities

Most of us Americans are so accustomed to a world of plenty; we have a hard time imagining a world of scarcity — much less making investments based upon this idea. But the energy markets provide a very powerful example…

23Jun2008 | The Penny Sleuth | 0 comments | Continued

BACK TO BASICS

I have been buying natural resources since 2001. Back then, commodity prices were the cheapest ever in the history of capitalism and tangibles were not on the radar screen of many investors (they still are not). Fast forward to early…

20Jun2008 | Daily Reckoning | 0 comments | Continued

U.N. Calls for Increased Cooperation to Fight Growing Global Food Crisis

The United Nations announced yesterday (Wednesday) that an additional $20 billion would be needed each year to combat global hunger.

On the second day of a three-day summit hosted by the U.N.’s Food and Agriculture Organization in Rome, leaders from 40…

4Jun2008 | Money Morning | 0 comments | Continued

Agriculture Supercycle Fertilizes Investor Profits

In a choppy market swirling with negative energy, wouldn’t it be nice to own a resource stock that keeps rising in the face of ALL bad news?

Welcome to the “agriculture super cycle” and the wild and whacky world of fertilizer.

To…

14Mar2008 | Guy Bennett | 0 comments | Continued
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