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The prices of soft commodities can be highly volatile as they often double, triple, or halve in value during their pricing cycles. The path of least resistance for the prices of luxury commodities is a function of the weather and crop diseases in the critical growing areas around the world. Ho...

Each year is a new adventure in the world of agricultural markets. As we head into the second quarter of 2019 the planting season for the 2019 crop begins. It is starting to look like planting will take place later rather than sooner in many areas of the Midwestern US as the fertile soil was u...

The animal protein or meat sector moved 8.65% higher in Q1 with an explosive gain in lean hog futures. The sector finished 2018 with a 3.73% loss. Meats ended 2017 with an 8.39% gain after falling 8.80% in 2016. In the meat markets, results can be skewed by term structure given the seasonality...

April starts on Monday, and that means the winter of 2018/2019 has come to an end. While there is always the chance of one of those nasty April snowstorms, it will not be long before the warm winds of spring give way to hot summer days. Grains are the crops that feed the world, and the Unite...

The spring season is just around the corner and futures markets are always looking ahead. The 2019 grilling season will commence during the Memorial Day weekend in late May, but it will not be long before hungry grillers are pulling their barbecues out of storage all over the United States to ...

Those who read my articles on Seeking Alpha know that I often call wheat the most political commodity in the world. While the majority of market participants would likely assign that title to the international crude oil market because more than half the world's reserves are located in the most...

Coffee consumers around the world have been cheering because in September 2018 the price of coffee beans fell to their lowest level in many years at 92 cents per pound. After a brief recovery that took the price of the Arabica beans favored by US consumers back to $1.255 in October, the price ...

I love chocolate, and I am not alone. The addressable market of chocoholics around the world has been growing by leaps and bounds. Since the beginning of the current century, global population increased by over 25%. At the same time, rising wealth in China, the world's most populous nation has...

On Friday, March 8 the US Department of Agriculture will release its second World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates report of 2019. The January report fell victim to the government shutdown which meant that many agricultural producers were making decisions in the dark until the agency r...

When someone asks me which commodity is the most sensitive to global political trends, my answer often comes as a surprise. Many market participants would answer that crude oil is highly political because more than half of the world's reserves of the energy commodity reside in the most turbule...