• Why snow won't necessarily stop the harvest
• Will corn prices keep going up?
• Which ETPs have corn exposure?

• Where she’s looking for farmland now
• Ethanol's ‘white elephant in the room’
• Which technology could change the ag markets forever

Stocks fell overnight as commodity companies declined on weaker oil and metals prices. Six hours ahead of the COMEX opening, spot gold was slumping nearly $5 an ounce at $954.60. Gold was later fixed in London at $946.50 and, by the time the New York floor session opened, spot month metal had lopped more than $13 off its Friday settlement value.

In case you haven't noticed, several commodities have swung to a bullish mode now, particularly RBOB gasoline, the soybean complex and corn. Less well-developed are the trends in the petroleum complex, softs such as coffee, sugar and orange juice, feeder cattle and wheat.

• Wet weather and corn plantings
• Wheat won't sustain its rally
• Uncertainty and soy

• Inflationary stimulus (or detriment?)
• The ‘Barry Goldwater’ of Israel
• Bartenders as benchmark ...

Last week, the futures regulator, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, started soliciting nominations for a new subcommittee charged with examining the causes of poor cash-futures convergence in some agricultural commodity markets.

• The importance of forecasts
• Bunge's future exposure
• Soybean expectations

Why does the Congressional Budget Office think corn will crater over the next decade? And should we believe them?

• A decade-long slump
• Ethanol margins squeezed
• Input costs uncertain