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Message| (2,464)    "Food should be fun." - Thomas Keller  Since
mid-August, investing in Agriculture on average has been
extremely difficult, particularly when considering the
opportunity cost of keeping capital in soft commodities as
equities worldwide have been rallying and outperforming. Take a
look below at the price ratio of the PowerShares DB Agriculture
ETF (DBA) relative to the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DIA). As
a reminder, a rising price ratio means the numerator/DBA is
outperforming (up more/down less) the denominator/DIA.  click to
enlarge  I've annotated the chart to show that the ratio
actually appears to have fairly defined trends, underperforming
in 2009, outperforming in 2010, and really weakening since late
August 2011. While rising food prices are certainly a hot-button
topic for many individuals, trying to invest on the idea of
rising food prices has been a ch