Friday, November 4, 2011

Latest Global Stocks-to-Use Ratios for Rice, Wheat, Cereal and Coarse Grain

Under my Food Security Tab (above) I keep this ongoing global stocks-to-use ratio chart. I have just updated it with the latest FAO figures. The world is successfully ramping up food production. Coarse grains includes corn, and we all know where that disappearance is coming from.——K.M.

Global stocks-to-use ratios2006/07 2007/08 2008/09 2009/10
2010/11
estim.
2011/12
f'cast
World Cereal 19.8 19.3 22.7 23.221.221.6
Wheat 25.9 22.6 27.7 29.8
26.728.2
Coarse Grains 14.6 14.9 17.5 17.014.713.9
Rice 23.9 25.2 28.228.829.331.8

chart: http://bigpictureagriculture.blogspot.com/
source: FAO (updated NOV 2011)