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Brazil is the world's leading producer of Arabica coffee beans. The South American nation has been the leader for more than a century and a half. In 2018, Brazil produced 2.598 million metric tons of coffee beans. Coffee plantations cover around 27,000 kilometers of Brazil, with the majority i...

Sugar can be a highly volatile soft commodity. Since the 1970s, the sugar futures market has traded from lows at 2.29 to highs at 66 cents per pound. Since sugar is a staple ingredient in many foods, governments around the world use subsidies to support local production of the sweet commodity....

The Ivory Coast and Ghana are the world's leading producers of the primary ingredient in chocolate confectionery products. Cocoa beans thrive in equatorial climates. The two countries have been working together to establish a minimum price for cocoa beans, which is the main crop of the nations...

On Thursday, October 10, the USDA will release its October World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates report. The October report comes during the height of the harvest season in the US. At the same time, it is now the planting season in the southern hemisphere. The WASDE report is the go...

A strong dollar and the ongoing trade war between the US and China have caused weakness in the leading grain futures market since 2018. Last week, the dollar index made a new high on the December futures contract. On the trade front, while negotiations between the US and China continue, there ...

On Friday, September 6, Howard Schultz, the founder of Starbucks (SBUX), announced that he would not run for President of the United States. Mr. Schultz had been pondering a self-financed run to become the leader of the free world, but he decided to step aside. He made his fortune in coffee, n...

After trading to a high at 14.24 cents per pound in October 2018, the price of sugar has been dissolving like a cube in a hot cup of coffee. The price of the sweet commodity hit its lowest level of 2019 and since last year at this time last week when it traded to a low at 10.86 cents per pound...

On August 26, the price of sugar futures that trade on the Intercontinental Exchange was trading not far above the bottom end of its trading range. The price of sugar futures had not traded below the 10 cents per pound level since 2008 until last August and September when the sweet commodity p...

The price of cocoa futures on the Intercontinental Exchange rose to the highest price in 2019 during the week of July 8. The price traded up to $2602 per ton. Since then, cocoa has moved lower over the past five of six weeks. On Monday, August 19, the price of nearby September futures was trad...

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...