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A glance through the latest expert views and predictions about commodities with bulk price forecasts lifted, Goldman Sachs talking food is a late cycle commodity play and tighter PGM markets.

Weather permitting the price of coffee could rise to US$4 per pound later this year, reports Investment U’s Tony D’Altorio.

Ahead of the Herd’s Rick Mills suggests while the Green Revolution lifted agricultural production a growing global population continues to present challenges for feeding the world.

Ahead of the Herd’s Rick Mills suggests harsh times of higher food prices and resulting civil unrest are here to stay.

A glance through the latest expert views and predictions about commodities with silver gaining relative to gold given weaker demand for the latter, a review of uranium and updates on Asian auto sales and cocoa.

Technical market analysts see pressure increasing on USD while highlighting this further stimulates commodities.

A glance through the latest expert views and predictions about commodities with positives for platinum, coal and iron ore, a ook at oil and base metals and an update on fertiliser prices.

A glance through the latest expert views and predictions about commodities with a push for monthly coal contracts, positive fundamentals for copper and iron but not zinc and an assessment of the impact of Chinese monetary policy on commodity prices.

Some scientists believe there exist longer scale wet/dry cycles which overlay the shorter El Nino/La Nina cycles and that we may have just come out of a decades of dry and into decades of wet. This could mean more “Brisbanes” over the next twenty plus years.

A glance through the latest expert views and predictions about commodities with positive fundamentals identified in thermal coal and fertiliser markets, short-term support for iron ore and palladium and alumina prices tipped to forecast to go higher.