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CME futures offer traders a way to capitalize on the likely increase in the grain's price. But to succeed, nimbleness is a must.

2. Beware: Silver Can Bite

Infamously volatile, the metal is out of favor—with investors, industrialists, and even coin collectors—and may stay that way for the foreseeable future.

3. How Corn Demand Is Feeding Fertilizer

Prices have plunged for natural gas, a key ingredient in the plant food. But high corn prices and increased plantings are keeping plant food costs elevated.

4. Why Low Coffee Prices Are Set to Perk Up

Arabica futures are near 17-month lows. However, Latin American weather woes look to pare crops, and give a lift to the market.

5. Another Slow Quarter Looms

The Dow Jones-UBS Commodity Index rose in the year's first three months by 3.4% before tumbling to finish down 2%. The commodities group has a dim outlook for the coming period.

6. Riding the Slide in Natural Gas

Natural-gas prices could fall even further as inventory swells and demand ebbs. How to profit from options.

7. Uranium Will Brighten

At a low $50 a pound on headlines of nuclear accidents, and news of some developed countries shutting their reactors, the price of the dense critical metal is due to come back by as much as 40% in two years.

8. Palladium Price Has Many Catalysts

Tight supply, and continued demand for growing car and truck markets, should keep expanding the metal's futures price.

9. Nascent Steel-Price Recovery

Steel prices got whacked in the recession. But with steel makers trimming down their debt and costs, the sector, and prices, should emerge stronger by 2013.

10. Coffee Is Ready to Boil

The tight trading range for arabica futures is set to go higher, as a much tighter supply situation is brewing.

11. Whipsawed Lumber's Springback

Lumber futures were felled last year by failed hopes for an economic recovery, a budding euro-zone debt crisis, and a languishing housing market. But in roughly six weeks, investors should see prices lift, thanks to returning demand across the globe.

12. Tungsten Prices Soar

China, having dominated the world market, slashes output and exports, and profits for mining companies stand to climb smartly.

13. Baltic Dry: Not Washed Up as a Signal

The Baltic Dry Index, a gauge of industrial expansion based on the world's ocean shipping, has lost adherents due to some economic mismatches. But that should fix itself as the supply of vessels falls into line.

14. Low-Hanging Fruit: OJ-Futures Prices Will Drop

Fears surrounding a fungicide affecting Brazilian oranges are turning out to be a tempest in a juice glass. So expect OJ futures prices, which had soared on supply-squeeze fears, to drop.