• The global staple
• Ethanol 101
• The bizarre world of Japanese rice

• The role of the index fund
• Increased margin fees at issue
• Potential limiting of players

We're in prime USDA report season, the seeds are going in the ground and investors are waffling.

• Aftermath of the prospective plantings report
• Crop progress and the biofuels update
• The rice crisis

• Yes, the bull market is still intact
• Are commodities overbought?
• Gold breaks its trend line

Potash lives at the intersection of agriculture and mining, and this week is prime time.

• How the crop report figures in
• Expectations on the street
• The China Syndrome

In the overnight market, March cotton followed through on Thursday's limit-up move, rising 4% and setting the stage for a bang-up Friday session. Higher prices for corn and soybeans seemed to be key supporting factors, though strong technical buying was also noted.

The sugar market turned explosive Thursday night, but not in the way bulls would have wanted.

Judging from the news coming out of Tyson Foods Inc. (NYSE:TSN), I should have spread poultry against pork. But not the way they do it.

Starbucks has been a pretty terrible place to be lately. But don’t blame the poor Arabica bean.

• Coffee 101
• The China connection
• Is Starbucks’ stock correlated with coffee prices?