Lewistown News-Argus News - Local firm on the cutting edge of new global market that could pay big dividends for Central Montana landowners

“The price movement has been fantastic since Super Tuesday, (Feb. 5, 2008 when 24 states held either primaries or caucuses) Sandor said. “On Super Tuesday prices were $1.90 for carbon and once it became clear that all three candidates favored the cap and trade, they went to $5.60 in three weeks. It’s a raging bull market and volumes are moving up exponentially.”

Shortages Threaten Farmers’ Key Tool: Fertilizer - New York Times

Bloomberg.com: Wall Street Grain Hoarding Brings Farmers, Consumers Near Ruin

Commodity Prices Are On the Rise, But So Are Input Costs | New West Network

On Capitol Hill, it's farm politics as usual - International Herald Tribune

As Congress works toward final passage of a farm bill, it is poised to continue most of the existing farmer subsidy programs, including about $5.2 billion a year in so-called direct payments that will be disbursed even as net farm income is projected to hit a historic high in 2008.

Great Falls Tribune - www.greatfallstribune.com - Great Falls, MT

Montana — already a net exporter of energy — has the potential for much more in the realm of renewable energy, probably more overall potential than any of the other Rocky Mountain states.

Amid U.S farm boom, fears grow of a collapse - International Herald Tribune

At a time of record agricultural profits, concerns are mounting that U.S. farmers could be edging toward a financial crisis not seen since the 1980s farm-economy collapse.

In Lean Times, Biotech Grains Are Less Taboo - New York Times

Soaring food prices and global grain shortages are bringing new pressures on governments, food companies and consumers to relax their longstanding resistance to genetically engineered crops.

New Threat to Farmers: The Market Hedge - New York Times

Those wild swings in expected prices are damaging the mechanisms — like futures contracts and options — that in the past have cushioned the jolts of farming, turning already-busy farmers into reluctant day-traders and part-time lobbyists.