I normally focus on industrial and service businesses, but recently headlines on rising food prices have me looking into agricultural businesses. Here some statistics to ponder: the world’s top 4 crops — wheat, corn, rice and barley — weigh more than the next 26 crops combined.
The world’s top 30 food crops (estimated edible dry matter) [following Cordain (1999) Table 1]
Our diet really is quite limited in scope, according to Cordain (1999):
I normally focus on industrial and service businesses, but recently headlines on rising food prices have me looking into agricultural businesses. Here some statistics to ponder: the world’s top 4 crops — wheat, corn, rice and barley — weigh more than the next 26 crops combined.
Our diet really is quite limited in scope, according to Cordain (1999):
