Comments on: Much Ado About Agriculture? http://fiduciarymagazine.com/2009/10/09/much-ado-about-agriculture/ Fri, 05 Mar 2010 05:59:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: steve http://fiduciarymagazine.com/2009/10/09/much-ado-about-agriculture/comment-page-1/#comment-18 steve Thu, 11 Feb 2010 03:31:41 +0000 http://fiduciarymagazine.com/?p=438#comment-18 Financing for agriculture is tough right now. Commodity price volatility is exacerbated by speculative trading. Yet, hedging risk is critical to agriculture. Banks play in all those markets through derivatives. But the real reason is probably that the Agriculture Committee wants a bite at the apple, so to speak. Financing for agriculture is tough right now. Commodity price volatility is exacerbated by speculative trading. Yet, hedging risk is critical to agriculture. Banks play in all those markets through derivatives.

But the real reason is probably that the Agriculture Committee wants a bite at the apple, so to speak.

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