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I saw several commodity traders on TV last night (an Aussie TV show) from all over the world (US, Canada , Europe, Australia, and Asia) and there was pretty much a concensus that wheat prices will slowly drop- down to around $7-8 bushel in the shortterm-- but then take a jump back up and by next August be in the $14-15 range...Thats the good news...
BUT
They also think that the US's economy is going to tank- causing worldwide runaway inflation that will leave that $14-15 wheat with less buying power than $3 or $4 wheat of a year ago-- and the $9-10 wheat of today ...
I went shopping today with Grandma--let her go shopping while I met all the husbands that were also shopping at the Waterhole :wink: ........
Anyway while there I let the owner of the local implement dealership buy me a couple of Christmas cheers-- and we got talking about those commodity (wheat) price predictions...He said he just came back from a national dealers meeting where the corporate ownership was predicting much of the same...In fact they said the economy was in the dumps so bad that they were looking at possibly 8- 10 years of bad times for the total US economy-- but that those 10 years of bad times for the economy on a whole could mean 10 years of good times for the farmer/grain producer/ ag equipment dealer...
Good times for the farmer-- means questionable times for the cattle producer -especially with the new energy policy payments/requirements, which will take up so much more farmland over those 10+ years for renewable fuels.... Which to me also points more to those breeds/types of cattle that can finish out the fastest on the leastest and on marginal type grassland/pasture/feed.... But how much a pound will those cattle have to bring - to pay the costs of this upcoming new global economy where the current administration is trying to get our dollar to the value of yuan or the peso????? :? ........