There are many people at the moment a little scared to see that inflation is slowly creeping in and affecting food prices. Some prices has on the shelves have double and tripled in only a few weeks. This has not only mums and dads panicking but also investors are being more selective on where they are putting their money.

If you are not sure of where to put your money in inflationary times, or simply just hedge against inflation you need to realize that there are many options available to you. Especially if the price of food increases dramatically.

A lot of the smart investors are using ETF traded funds or the commodity futures market to bet on the food prices increasing in 2011. You can use the FUD ETF fund which tracks different commodity indicies. These include such thins as hogs and cattle. But there are many other options available to you.

There are other funds on US markets like DBA that allow you to invest in food (commodities) some of these allow the risk to decrease as they split between soy, corn, wheat and sugar all in one. This allows you to be in a diversified investment so as not to have all your eggs in one basket. It also tracks food, and its prices over a longer time period.

Realistically it seems that the cost of inflation is coming our way. And the best place you want to be invested is in the agriculture sectors in the coming months.