GLG News by Agricultural Finance Experts

Citigroup's eroded capital ratio will put added pressure on the company to reduce its dividend payment or take other steps to protect its capital position.

There has been a paradyne shift in commodity prices. It is hard to think of a return to $20 a barrel oil. In the same way grain and oilseed prices are now at a new level as demand has grown and will outstrip supplies for the next few years. Higher prices and possibly new record prices are likely in...

There has been a paradyn shift in commodity prices. It is hard to think of a return to $20 a barrel oil. In the same way grain and oilseed prices are now at a new level as demand has grown and will outstrip supplies for the next few years. Higher prices and possibly new record prices are likely in 2008....

The rate-freeze approved and being implemented by the government is not nearly the answer to the problems facing the Mortgage Industry, or the Financial District as a whole. The problem is systemic, and the solution is only one of a bitter pill to swallow.

Argentina is becoming dry, and Brazil could follow. This is pushing soybean up towards record high prices, with corn returning to five month highs. Spring wheat, which is yet to be planted in North America is reaching for the sky as Argentina imposes export controls and Canada confirms a smaller harvest....

What might be the largest single project for jatropha production has just been announced by Bionor in the Philippines. With soy oil prices reaching record high prices and the cry against food to fuel and for sustainable farming, is this the agriculture project of the future? How soon will we see that...

Wheat quality conditions may limit 2008 production. Adding four to six million more acres may be of little help. Wheat value expected to firm into 2008

The National Weather Service is reporting continued continued strengthening of the La Nina water current which could result in drought in Brazil this crop year and continued drought in the SE and SW of the US. Any reduction in yields in the Americas this year on wheat, soybeans and corn could result...

Soybean prices have continued to climb as soybean oil prices set new record high prices. Soybean oil futures over the past six months have had over a .96 correlation to price movements of crude oil futures. Continued growth in demand for vegetable oils for food and biodiesel and vegetable proteins for...

India is a Booming economy Financial Sector in India is growing in Leaps and Bounds, thanks to technology and globalisation and Liberalisation Who are the real Beneficiaries??