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On Monday, August 12, the US Department of Agricultural released its August World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates report. The August report comes at a time when the growing season across the fertile plains of the US and the northern hemisphere is entering its final weeks. The fall har...

The Olmec, the first major civilization in Mexico (1500-400 BC), ate cocoa beans. They crushed the beans, mixed them with water, and added spices. The Olmec could be the first people that consumed chocolate. A ritual beverage, chocolatl , containing cocoa beans, was shared during Mayan marr...

The price of Arabica coffee futures that trade on the Intercontinental Exchange fell to a low at 92 cents per pound in September 2018. The drop to the lowest level since 2005 led to a recovery that took the nearby contract to a high at $1.2550 in October. The coffee market ran out of upside ...

The sugar futures market on the Intercontinental Exchange can be highly volatile. Since October 2016, the price of the sweet commodity has traded in a range from 9.83 to 23.90 cents per pound on the nearby futures contract. The range since 1971 has been from 2.29 to 66 cents per pound. Back ...

Cocoa beans are the primary ingredient in chocolate confectionery products. Over 60% of the world's annual supplies of the beans come from West Africa. The Ivory Coast and Ghana are the leading producers and exporters of cocoa to the world. Cocoa is a crop that is highly sensitive to the wea...

The Department of Agriculture plans to deploy $16B in government funds to pay U.S. farmers hurt by the trade war with China and wet weather that kept many from planting a crop this spring. More news on: Invesco DB Agriculture ETF, Teucrium Corn ETF, Teucrium Wheat Fund, Commodities news,...

Cotton is a member of the soft commodities sector of the raw material asset class. Futures and futures options in cotton trade on the Intercontinental Exchange. The top three leading producers of cotton in the world are India, China, and the United States. In the US, cotton has a long and cont...

The months fly by, and now that the end of the second quarter of 2019 is in the books, it is time for the US Department of Agriculture to issue its monthly World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates report once again. This month’s report will come out on Thursday, July 11, at noon E...

The price action in the coffee futures market has been a bonus for companies that rely on coffee beans as a part of their cost of goods sold. For those who have not lower product prices, lower coffee prices have increased profit margins since 2011. Arabica coffee futures that trade on the In...

Cocoa beans are the primary ingredient in chocolate confectionery products. The beans thrive in tropical climates near the equator. Therefore, the West African nations of the Ivory Coast and Ghana are the world's leading producers of cocoa. Together they account for around 60% of the global an...