This is a bit of a long shot but reading this report in the UK's Daily Telegraph about Russia using big a good harvest as a foreign policy tool, got me thinking about the possibility of it becoming a biofuel...
There's an interesting piece on the effects of speculation on prices in the oil and corn markets in the US over on Donklephant, which is talking about Obama's Plan to Address Energy Trading. It is all right blaming the speculators...
If you're dabbling or playing seriously in the Chicago Board of Trade Mini corn and wheat futures, you can see what the market's doing at no charge and live....
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