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Common factors driving agricultural prices higher

We think that the sharp rise in agricultural prices since the beginning of the year is likely to be a spike rather than the start of an upward trend. Indeed, the surge in prices is mainly due to a mixture of adverse weather, political tensions and disease. All of these should ease over the next year.

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