JIM ROGERS : The BHP Billiton Action is just one of the reasons that the commodity bull market is going to continue for a while

JIM ROGERS: No, no this is nothing more than a blip. The BHP Billiton action is just one of the reasons that the commodity bull market is going to continue for a while. The bull market will continue until a lot of supply comes on stream and the problems since 2008 ensure not a lot of supply is coming on stream. After eight or nine years into a bull market, usually people start thinking about new supply, but anybody thinking about new supply suddenly got hit by 2008. BHP Billiton got hit by 2012, so all these guys are delaying or suspending or cancelling new supply which is bullish. Until the supply comes we're not going to have an end to the bull market and, certainly in agriculture, my goodness, inventories are near historic lows, we have serious shortages of everything in agriculture developing, including farmers. The average age of farmers in America is 58 - I can go on and on with statistics in other countries... the highest rate of suicide in the UK has been in agriculture. Farming has been a horrible business for 30 years. Normally when you have a year like this when a lot of prices go higher, usually you would start seeing big production increases and attempts to rebuild inventory, but unfortunately we don't have so many farmers. Next year the farmers are going to be 59, and in five years from now the ones that are still alive will be 63, so the world's going to have serious problems as far as supply of agriculture is concerned. - in mineweb
Jim Rogers started trading the stock market with $600 in 1968.In 1973 he formed the Quantum Fund with the legendary investor George Soros before retiring, a multi millionaire at the age of 37. Rogers and Soros helped steer the fund to a miraculous 4,200% return over the 10 year span of the fund while the S&P 500 returned just 47%.