Ned Schmidt: Bottom Forming in the Ag Markets–Likely Complete by Mid-February

Jim welcomes back to Financial Sense Newshour Ned Schmidt CFA of the Agri-Food Value View report. Ned sees the agriculture markets bottoming in February with higher prices likely this spring, particularly in sugar, cotton, palm oil, beef and hogs. Ned also believes outlook for the U.S. farm machinery market may not be as strong as the Street believes.

Ned is a financial engineer specializing in global capital flows. He has been an advocate and practitioner of value oriented investing for thirty years. Ned began his investment career as a security analyst following the oil industry in the early 1970s. In the 1980s he was manager of an investment management group with discretionary responsibility for about $3.5 billion. During the past decade he also taught institutional investment management as The Roland George Visiting Professor of Applied Investments at Stetson University. He currently manages the Argyle Global Equity Appreciation Fund, an offshore mutual fund in the top quartile of global equity funds the past three years by Standard and Poors. Ned currently publishes THE VALUE VIEW GOLD REPORT, and writes for THE GLOBAL ADVISOR published in Toronto.