2006 Market Outlook: What are the factors driving this year's market?

摘要

Carryover from 2005 weighs heavy on the minds of the industry. Although an increase in domestic consumption gobbled up the crop for a few years, successively large crops have folks asking, "Where will all the peanuts go?" "Crop size has increased every year for the four years of the program," says Jimmy Dorsett, president and chief executive officer of Golden Peanut Co. "Early on, we were still refilling the pipeline, and peanuts were going into the domestic edibles market."