Food prices and agriculture exchange traded funds (ETFs) both may reflect the news contained in the USDA’s harvest projections.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture cut its harvest projections for corn, soybeans and wheat, adding fuel to the . Meanwhile, further concerns about a food shortage are becoming a reality. Scott Kilman and Liam Pleven for The Wall Street Journal report that the agency’s decision to cut its month-old corn projection by 3.8% was startling to many. []

Historically, though, the USDA’s forecast for corn crops is still the third-largest ever. []

Economists expect farmers to respond to by planting millions more acres of , which should benefit sellers of seed and chemicals to farmers such as Monsanto Co. and DuPont Co. The larger threat comes from using other farmland for those commodities in a shortage in order to make up. This could in turn create another shortage.

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