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Archive Home > 2008 > June > 05 > Investors bet (on) the farm

Investors bet (on) the farm

Funds see big profit potential in the food production business

By Diana B. Henriques / The Bulletin
June 5, 2008

Huge investment funds have already poured hundreds of billions of dollars into booming financial markets for commodities like wheat, corn and soybeans.

But a few big private investors are starting to make bolder and longer-term bets that the world’s need for food will greatly increase....

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