It should be noted that at a time when obesity is such a top-of-mind issue throughout the public health community, the food industry has introduced more products focused on health and wellness than ever before.

Russia agrees to lift ban on U.S. poultry, and Korea-U.S. F.T.A. may be back on track

Supply issues persist for sugar, cocoa, coffee and orange juice

Grain supplies mostly ample but cocoa, spices, some others limited

It is apparent that as markets have swung in recent years efforts to respond by new trading methods have come front and center.

Absent fundamental explanations as well as economic factors to account for the current level of wheat prices leaves standing the most central of all assessments — that the market itself is never wrong.

Energy markets also watching weather in wake of Gulf oil spill