Date: February 14th 2011

Spring is on its way and the growing season is drawing near. Food prices are climbing at an alarming rate and the economic climate of the world is becoming increasingly unstable. Commodity prices at the Chicago Board of Trade for grains and oil seeds scheduled for late summer and fall delivery are hitting all time highs, with some contract prices doubling in just the past few weeks. In the past six months wheat is up 70%, corn up 60%, soy up 50%, sugar up 35%, palm oil up 142%, sunflower oil up 60%, and the list goes on and on. China, the source of over half of the apples in the American market, has seen the cost of those apples double in just the past two weeks. Read the rest: http://us2.campaign-archive2.com/?u=d96276e18e84ae8789afd32d2&id=41ccd21099&e=9bc2f77186

John and Julie Clark