Sunday, January 30, 2011

Agflation and Australian Agricultural Companies

The phenomenon of Agflation is gaining headlines and will increase in the near future. It is the inflation of products of the land, such as wheat, corn, soybeans, basically food supply commodities. There are various reasons for this and the problems will get worse. Some of the reasons include population growth leading to more people to feed and at the same time less land for agriculture. Natural disasters worldwide has recently had dramatic effects on agriculture. The recent environmental push for biofuels also mean that products are grown for fuel rather than to feed humands. None of these causes will go away soon but may increase in severity.

From an investment perspective, agriculture companies have fundamental reason for appreciating in price. Some of the Australian agriculture companies are below. Please feel free to comment if you find other significant companies.

AAC  AUSTRALIAN AGRICULTURE COMPANY
CAQ  CELL AQUACULTURE
CSS   CLEAN SEAS TUNA
ELD   ELDERS
GFF   GOODMAN FIELDER
GNC GRAINCORP
IPL    INCITEC PIVOT
MSF  MARYBOROUGH SUGAR
NUF  NUFARM
PAG  PRIME AG
RIC   RIDLEY
RHL  RURAL CO
SHV  SELECT HARVEST
TAN  TANDOU
TGR  TASSAL
WCB WARRNAMBOOL CHEESE

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