Magic: mushrooms Potentially good news for CBoT's new soybean contract came last week as I noticed a story informing the world that the production of beans in the US is being "menaced by fungus." Ignoring the slightly worrying image that comes to mind of a mugging being conducted by bat-toting mushrooms, I was moved to wonder exactly what was going on here. Well, for those of you interested in the ongoing battle between pea and porcini, it seems that the FBI have ruled out the possibility of bioterror (which is a shame in a way as I was rather hoping to use that as an excuse for the rather sorry state of my attire following a long strategy meeting in my club the other...