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Coffee futures traded to a high at $1.76 per pound in November 2016 when it turned lower and made lower highs and lower lows culminating in a bottom at 92 cents per pound in September 2018. Before last August, coffee had not traded below the $1 per pound level since 2006 in a dozen years. Th...

The soybean crush spread is the economics of processing the raw oilseed into soybean products; soybean meal and soybean oil. Soybean meal is a primary ingredient in the production of animal feed and other products. Soybean oil is essential when it comes to many food products that feed the worl...

At their Party Congress in October 2017, President Xi rolled out plans to clean up pollution in China's most populous cities. In Europe and other nations around the world, alternative energy sources are gaining momentum as policies have shifted from fossil fuels. In the US, the new majority in...

The monthly World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) report from the US Department of Agriculture is the gold-standard when it comes to its supply and demand data and projections. However, the USDA often looks at agricultural markets with a bit too much optimism at the beginning ...

We've talked recently about African Swine Flu sending the Hog market for a ride , and that's just the sort of thing we imagined in our 2019 Outlook whitepaper when we talked about the "return of Ag." There's been four straight years of volatility contraction for the Ag markets, and there's a ...

Each month the US Department of Agriculture releases the World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates report which is the gold-standard for fundamental research for many of the products that feed the world. The April report comes at a time when farmers are beginning the process of planting c...

Cotton can be one of the wildest commodities that trade on the futures exchanges. Before 2010, the price of the fiber never traded above $1.1720 per pound, but in 2011, the price rose to over twice that price when it rose to a record peak at $2.27. The rally in the cotton futures market was ...

On Tuesday, April 9, the US Department of Agriculture will release its April World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates report which comes at a time when farmers should be planting the 2019 crops in the northern hemisphere. The old saying that April showers bring May flowers is significant...

This week, the price of coffee traded to a new low at 91.25 cents per pound. While the price was just 0.75 cents lower than the September 2018 low, coffee futures had not traded below the $1 per pound level since 2006 before last August. At the lowest price in a dozen years, the price of coffe...

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...