Ag Stock-Picking: Babson vs. Boston on the Best Plays

This article was written by Stockpickr member Ira Krakow.

During the current market slowdown, the classic "defensive" investment plays -- consumer-focused companies like Procter & Gamble (PG Quote), and Coca-Cola (KO Quote), -- have fallen along with the rest of the market. Meanwhile, stocks in the once sleepy agriculture industries, such as Monsanto (MON Quote), Potash (POT Quote), and Agrium (AGU Quote), have been on the rise.

As the recent stock picks of the Boston-area Babson College Fund and the Boston College Investment Club show, this shift in the market has not gone unnoticed.

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