GLG News by Fertilizers Experts

Last year President Evo Morales of Bolivia had to abandon his efforts to nationalize the mining sector. The miners of Bolivia have been a radical and violent group for decades and major supporters of President Morales and his nationalistic campaign. He would have gone ahead with the nationalization...

The article and the NYT followup editorial on 1/25/07, "Energy Rhetoric, and Reality", did not get the story right any more then the President did in his State of the Union Address.The President increased his push for alternative fuels, raising the bar from last year's 7.5 billion gallons by 2012 to...

The President's State of the Union Speech next week is going to contain a change of course relative to its global warming policy according to the British paper The Observer.Pressure is snowballing for the Bush Administration to take the lead on this major issue before the Democrats, who now control...

The ISAAA announced on 1/18/2007 that for 2006 the world seeded 252 million acres with genetically modified  (GM) seeds, a 13% increase over 2005. There are now 10.3 million farmers growing GM crops, a 21% increase from the previous year. According to this article that number could jump by 80 million...

According to this article from the Associated Press from 1/9/07 one would think that the ethanol industry was about to collapse just as new production in being announced.Is the largest agri-industrial company Cargill announcing a major expansion of capacity with the planned addition of 4 new ethanol...

England's consumers are as organic as they get, and yet their Secretary of state for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs says that Organic Food is no better than nonorganic farm food. What's happening in this very green country? Is the sky falling or will this market continue to grow in the UK as...

 Soybean prices do have significant upside potential over the next 12 months, but it may be too early to be making bets on the if, when and how much.

One question of this new future for the US ag sector has been answered--corn prices have already gone up...up almost 75% in just a few months.  Now the question is does the ethanol industry still have the momentum to go where it seemed to be headed last fall in terms of potential...

Mr. Guebert does a good job of continuing to point out what many US ethanol proponents continue to be turning a deaf ear to…there may just not enough corn to keep all of these "new" plants going next year. On the other hand, I think the article misses the point in his comparison to Brazil.

While it seems that this author has offered a fairly shallow view of the alternative situation and offered it up with a far more serious tone than it deserves….there is often at least a little sound logic in even the most poorly formulated arguments, and I believe that this hold true for this piece