{"id":2103033,"date":"2019-04-04T13:13:43","date_gmt":"2019-04-04T07:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/?p=2103033"},"modified":"2019-04-04T13:13:43","modified_gmt":"2019-04-04T07:43:43","slug":"food-a-problem-of-plenty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/2019\/04\/04\/food-a-problem-of-plenty\/","title":{"rendered":"Food: A problem of plenty?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/stockviz\/blog\/raw\/master\/commodities\/agriculture-01\/IMF.PCPS-PFERT-IX.PCPS-PFOOD-IX.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/github.com\/stockviz\/blog\/raw\/master\/commodities\/agriculture-01\/IMF.PCPS-PFERT-IX.PCPS-PFOOD-IX.png\" width=\"4800\" height=\"2400\" alt=\"fertilizer and food price chart\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/stockviz\/blog\/raw\/master\/commodities\/agriculture-01\/IMF.PCPS-PFERT-IX.PCPS-PCERE-IX.PCPS-PRICENPQ-IX.PCPS-PWHEAMT-IX.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/github.com\/stockviz\/blog\/raw\/master\/commodities\/agriculture-01\/IMF.PCPS-PFERT-IX.PCPS-PCERE-IX.PCPS-PRICENPQ-IX.PCPS-PWHEAMT-IX.png\" width=\"4800\" height=\"2400\" alt=\"fertilizer, cereal, rice and wheat indices\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small><br \/>\nLegend<br \/>\n<strong>PFERT<\/strong>: Primary Commodity Prices, Fertilizer<br \/>\n<strong>PCERE<\/strong>: Primary Commodity Prices, Cereal  index<br \/>\n<strong>PRICENPQ<\/strong>: Primary Commodity Prices, Rice, Thailand<br \/>\n<strong>PWHEAMT<\/strong>: Primary Commodity Prices, Wheat<br \/>\n<strong>PFOOD<\/strong>: Primary Commodity Prices, Food index<br \/>\n<\/small><\/p>\n<p>If I am reading this chart right, when prices of food commodities (cereals, rice, wheat) go up, fertilizer prices go up. But when food prices come down, fertilizer&#8217;s stay up? Wheat prices are more-or-less where they were back in the 90&#8217;s. The rest have barely budged. No wonder I&#8217;ve spent most of my adult life hearing about farm distress.<\/p>\n<p>Code and charts are on <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/stockviz\/blog\/tree\/master\/commodities\/agriculture-01\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">github<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legend PFERT: Primary Commodity Prices, Fertilizer PCERE: Primary Commodity Prices, Cereal index PRICENPQ: Primary Commodity Prices, Rice, Thailand PWHEAMT: Primary Commodity Prices, Wheat PFOOD: Primary Commodity Prices, Food index If I am reading this chart right, when prices of food commodities (cereals, rice, wheat) go up, fertilizer prices go up. But when food prices come &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2093053,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3471],"tags":[3853],"class_list":["post-2103033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-investing-insight","tag-commodities","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2103033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2103033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2103033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2093053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2103033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2103033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2103033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}