If you think grain is headed for a higher plateau, Grice recommends looking at stocks like Bunge, Archer Daniels Midland, Yara International, Agrium, Syngenta and Monsanto.

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There, an addiction to artificially priced grain, wrong-headed collectivization methods in the late 1950s and economic reforms that have generally favored the cities over the countryside have conspired to keep the peasantry poor and under the thumb of self-serving cadres.

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