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On Friday, September 11, the US Department of Agriculture released the September World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates report. The monthly WASDE is the gold standard when it comes to fundamental data for grains and other products. The September WASDE report comes at a time when the ma...

On Friday, September 11, at noon EST, the US Department of Agriculture will release its September World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates report. The USDA’s monthly missive is the gold standard for producers and consumers as they often make hedging and business decisions on the f...

Cotton is a member of the soft commodities sector of the raw materials asset class. I last wrote about cotton on Seeking Alpha on May 9, when the price of the fluffy fiber was trading around the 57-58 cents per pound level on the December futures contract on the Intercontinental Exchange. De...

As with everything in 2020, many factors are playing into U.S. and global cotton prices. Let's look at a country-by-country breakdown from Best Weather. The Overall Market While China and India are the world's biggest cotton growers, the United States is the biggest exporter. China is by f...

On Thursday, June 11, the United States Department of Agriculture will release its June World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates report. The monthly WASDE is the gold standard when it comes to fundamental data for the agricultural futures markets. Volatility in the futures arena tends to...

On Tuesday, May 12, the US Department of Agriculture released its May World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates report. The monthly WASDE is the gold standard when it comes to US and global fundamentals for the commodities that grow in the fertile plains of the US and around the globe. ...

On Tuesday, May 12, at noon EST, the US Department of Agriculture will release its May World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates report. The WASDE report is the gold standard for the agricultural markets as it outlines data on US and global inventories and exports. Each year is always a...

The cotton futures market has been one of the victims of the global pandemic. In an article for Seeking Alpha on April 13 , I suggested that the price of cotton was at a level that offered value. I proposed three reasons including that cotton was at the bottom end of its multiyear pricing c...

First, it was toilet paper and paper towels, and now it is beef, pork, and other animal proteins. Since the end of February, a combination of hoarding and bottlenecks in the supply chain has been making supermarkets in the United States, and other parts of the world operate a lot like Russia d...

Oil is getting all the headlines , but corn, beans, sugar, coffee, and cocoa are among other commodities either close to or making multi-year lows this morning. More news on: Invesco DB Agriculture ETF, iPath Series B Bloomberg Coffee Subindex Total Return ETN, Teucrium Corn ETF, Commo...