The
state of Queensland has
now gone from politcal madness
to a dictator state. Our
farmers will lose there
jobs - familes - land and
businesses with this bill.
I personally know since
this bill has come about
that 7 people have lost
their jobs within a day.
Now in the district of South
Burnett everything has stopped.
Slashers - bobcat and heavy
machinery operators - everything.
This bill is one of the
worst controlled factors
over rural people and properties
in the world. Farmers cannot
touch a single tree on there
own managed property. Crown
land across 1,000,000 hectares
of South East Queensland
gone via government labour
party theft. Our rural farmers
who have cared for the land
for so long are being told
to they cannot manage their
own properties. I.E Imagine
if we told city people that
they cannot mow there own
lawn. This law once in place
cannot be appealed - you
can never go to the courts
over this. It is total dominant.
If this passes all farmers
are and will be wiped out.
The mapping co-ordinates
are so badly done that they
include roundabouts in town
as per McLindon Aidan, Patrick
(Aidan) BA [Mr] (Beaudesert)
refering to a Boonah roundabout
in parliment, he stated
and witnessed. Our land
values will plummet if you
cannot touch any of it.
House prices and property/machinery
debts will cause mass chaos
for the rural sector.
To
some up this bill - Bloody
discombobulating stupidity
!!!!!!!!!!
FARMERS
HAVE NEVER RECEIVED A LETTER
FROM THE GOVERNMENT OR BEEN
TOLD DIRECTLY ABOUT THIS
BILL. IT WAS DONE FROM LABOUR
FOR THE GREENS VOTES. IT
WAS THE FIRST RUSHED MAJOR
BILL INTO PARLIMENT - YES
NOT HOSPITALS OR JOBS OR
TRANSPORT IT WAS THE RURAL
FARMER AND HIS LAND.
THIS
PATHETIC BILL HAS LEFT NOBODY
TO BE ABLE TO FIGHT THIS
EXCEPT LNP + INDEPENDANTS..........
SOME RURAL INDUSTRIES HAD
TIME TO FIGHT - HOWEVER
THEY LEFT IT WAY TOO LATE
AND NEARLY ALL FARMERS I
KNOW HAD NO IDEA AS EVERYTHING
IN THE DISTRICTS WERE MAINLY
WHITE ZONES AND GREEN
ZONES - ONLY TO BE
OVERNIGHT TURNED INTO BLUE
ZONES BY A MAPPING
SYSTEM THAT YOU HAVE TO
PAY OVER $300 DOLLARS TO
AQUIRE. (p.s they have reduce
this overnight after the
second reading to $131.30
+ - goes to show you how
they control people from
not getting the information
asap.)
This sub-section
covers all sites which offer
market data and information
from daily closing prices
to weekly, monthly and yearly
market reports. They differ
by the information, data-banks
and reports provided at
each Internet site, by their
sources of information,
by the regions covered or
by commodities. This Market
Reports sub-section has
five areas: (1) USDA market
wire service, agricultural
marketing service, and economics
and statistics system, (2)
international and world
markets, (3) Africa, (4)
within the United States
of America, and (5) specific
commodities such as grains
(including rice), soybeans,
fruits and vegetables, hogs,
cattle and livestock (including
forages), seafood, cotton,
nuts and fertilizer market
information.
USDA
Market Wire Service, Agricultural
Marketing Service, and Economics
and Statistics System
The
USDA AMS Market News Service.
For current U.S. price and
sales information, start
your search here. One of
the best sources for daily
to weekly reports for all
kinds of commodity prices,
bids, imports and exports
in the U.S., from dairy,
feedstuffs, fruit and vegetables,
futures, grains, hay, livestock,
meat, poultry, tobacco.
Reports cover both domestic
and international markets.
Other reports include information
on volume, quality, condition,
and other market data on
farm products in specific
markets and marketing areas.
You can reach them at: http://www.ams.usda.gov
USDA reports and Ag. Market
Information - The complete
set of reports. Updated
daily. This information
for grain and other commodities
is organized by state and
nationally by the University
of Nebraska-Lincoln's Institute
of Agriculture and Natural
Resources' web site at:
http://ianrwww.unl.edu
The
Mann Library has set up
historic data series, and
indexes on U.S. prices received
by commodity. Published
by N.A.S.S., the indexes
of prices received by farmers
includes monthly and annual
prices, most for 1908-92.
Click on the Connect button.
To
obtain market information
reports and data-sets from
the Economic Research Service
(ERS), the National Agricultural
Statistics Service (NASS)
and the World Agriculture
Outlook Board (WAOB), go
to the Albert R. Mann Library
at Cornell University. Set
up in collaboration with
the USDA Economics and Statistics
System, their web site can
be reached at: http://usda.mannlib.cornell.edu
With
Switchbanks you can find
data on subjects such as
worldwide textile fiber
production, farm production
expenses, European Community
wheat supply, milk and dairy
product sales, food spending
in American households,
U.S. meat supply and consumption,
fertilizer use, ozone records
for the Northeast, and so
on. Searching the system,
you can find reports about
U.S. agricultural income
and finance, farm production
expenses, dairy production,
industrial uses of agricultural
materials, agricultural
trade update, livestock
inventory, and also world
agricultural supply and
demand estimates and outlook
reports.
Looking
at wheat for example, monthly
update and outlook reports
can be found on supply,
disappearance, tariffs,
quotas, area, price, stocks,
inspections, trade and cash
prices for leading classes
of wheat at U.S. markets.
Many annual reports are
also available.
For
those interested in world
agricultural supply and
demand estimates, full-text
monthly reports provide
the most current USDA forecasts
of U.S. and world supply-use
balances of major grains,
soybeans and products, cotton,
and much more. All of these
reports may also be emailed
directly to you free of
charge. More information
on this service can be found
in section 2.4.
Another
good web site is the Market
Information System (MIS)
developed by the University
of Florida. It provides
agricultural market information
received from the USDA Agricultural
Marketing Service (AMS).
It covers many commodities
such as grain, and data
is given by city.
International
and World Markets
The Foreign Agricultural
Service (FAS) offers regularly
many current commodity analysis
reports on world markets
and trade for different
commodities such as grains
and tropical fruit. The
site is worth visiting from
time to time to see what
is newly available. It may
be found at: http://www.fas.usda.gov/commodity.html
You may also search through
their market research page,
where you can find country
reports prepared by FAS
attaches covering nearly
130 countries (see attache
reports). You may also look
through their "Trade
Leads" section reported
daily, and read their food
market overviews which provide
valuable information about
some of the United States'
most important export markets.
You can also find out how
to subscribe to the "Foreign
Buyers List" compiled
by FAS overseas staff, or
review their market-specific
reports providing detailed
information on marketing
certain products in specific
countries. These web pages
can be found at: http://www.fas.usda.gov
Another interesting tool
at the FAS web site is the
U.S. import and export statistics
for bulk, intermediate and
consumer-oriented foods
and beverages (BICO). You
may search by specific commodity
or by country. Their web
page can be found at: http://www.fas.usda.gov
The
Food and Agricultural Organization
(FAO) of the United Nations
has also a very good web
site. Available through
the site are many great
features and related information
sources. For example, follow
their Global Watch series
of pages, and in one you
will find global information
on early warning systems
for sub-Saharan Africa:
food outlook, food shortages,
food crops and supplies,
crop prospects and situations,
as well as Sahel weather
and special alerts. Also,
world food outlook reports
on cereals come out every
two months. Be sure to look
up their web pages on the
World Food Summit held in
Rome in November 1996.
Another
great web page at the FAO
site is the FAOSTAT Agriculture
Statistics Database which
contains time-series data
(starting from 1961) for
over 210 countries and 1500
items on the production
and trade of primary and
derived crops and livestock
products; agricultural machinery;
fertilizer, pesticides and
insecticides (trade only);
land use, population and
food aid. For example, if
you wanted to compare FAO
statistics for wheat production
over the last five years
between the U.S., Canada,
Argentina and Australia,
you can simply request this
information from their database
and within a minute(s),
the application gives the
comparison between production,
area harvested, yield, and
so on, of those countries
in the order selected. You
can then download a copy
in worksheet form!
Finally,
among other related sources
and links, the FAO has started
setting up web pages on
agricultural marketing,
food outlook and yearly
commodity market reviews.
The Agricultural Support
Systems Division of FAO
(AGS) carries out work in
agricultural marketing,
agricultural machinery,
tools and equipment, agricultural
processing, farming systems
and farm management, post-harvest
management and rural finance.
For example, they helped
set up the web site on market
information in Zambia. In
the food outlook section
you will find quarterly
information on the world
cereal situation, supply
and demand, current production
and prospects, trade, carryover
stock, fertilizer data,
export prices and freight
weights. And in the commodity
market review section, you
can access economic data
from the past few years
with reasons for the variations
and changes as well as some
forecasting. These web pages
cover many commodities such
as beverages, sugar, bananas
and citrus, cereals and
cassava, oilseeds, oils
and oilmeals, livestock
and milk products, agricultural
raw materials such as for
cotton, fishery products
and forestry products.
For
the page on agricultural
marketing go to: http://www.fao.org/
English, French and Spanish
available.
The
people at the Commodities
and Trade Division have
set up a wonderful web page
to get weekly prices (and
monthly and yearly averages)
of most major export commodities
- from 1989 to 2006.
For
the GIEWS quarterly food
go to the above.
In
addition, all the GIEWS
publications, including
Foodcrops and Shortages,
Food supply situation and
crop prospects in sub-Saharan
Africa, the Sahel weather
and crop situation and Special
Reports and Alerts are available
at: http://www.fao.org/giews/english/giewse.htm
The
last three sites can be
found starting with the
FAO's Economic and Social
Department at: http://www.fao.org/For
the Global Watch archive
web pages go to: http://www.fao.org/
And
for the World Food Summit
web pages, go to: http://www.fao.org/wfs/homepage.htm
Statistics: Looking for
statistics on a certain
country? The FAO's Agricultural
Statistics Information Links
(ASIL) web page is a good
start: select the region
and country and they will
link you to the statistical
division or department of
that country.
Pink Sheet.
The
World Bank offers some commodity
price data in their data,
analysis and forecasts section,
in what is known as the
"Pink Sheet."
These monthly reports offer
only a few data on food
and represent annual averages
over the last three years.
Of interest, you may also
find some interesting data
on global economies, social
indicators, balance of payments,
and so on. http://www.worldbank.org/prospects/pinksheets/
Also
from the World Bank, the
Global Commodity Markets
section provides coverage
of major primary commodities,
including price forecasts,
regional price indices,
transportation costs, and
access to the World Bank's
Macroeconomic Outlook.
It
replaces Commodity Markets
and the Developing Countries,
which was discontinued as
of December 1998. It is
published four times per
year (January, April, July,
and October). Each 80-page
issue, which will be available
in both print and electronic
form, will contain price
forecasts for 46 primary
commodities (for the next
three years, and for 2005
and 2010), detailed market
reviews for 27 major commodities,
and newly expanded sections
covering global and regional
price indexes. Although
subscription is necessary
for full copy (highly recommended!),
you can view the summary
and the featured article
for free. The link is: http://www.worldbank.org/
From
agricultural commodities
to metals and energy, get
the latest market news and
analysis from the Financial
Times.
For
the latest information on
Commodity, Energy and Financial
Futures, go to the Reuters
web site.
Visit
the International Grains
Council's Monthly Grain
Market Report Summary.
Although
in French, the Centre de
coopération internationale
en recherche agronomique
pour le développement
or CIRAD, produces statistical
sheets with price trends
in international markets
annually for several (hard
to find on the net) tropical
agricultural commodities.
A good resource, well presented,
the link is: http://www.cirad.fr/
Another
web site contains baseline
projections produced by
the Food and Agricultural
Policy Research Institute
(FAPRI) for the U.S. agricultural
sector and international
commodity markets. Their
agricultural outlook reports
cover many commodities in
U.S. and world trade.
Inside
the U.S.
For the United States,
many web sites exist that
offer local state information
for different commodities
through university extension
services, exchanges and
boards of trade.
Outlook:
These pages provide information
on the likely price distributions
of key commodities over
the coming year. Such information
helps farmers and traders
make decisions on when and
in what ways to market their
grain (e.g., whether to
sell at harvest, store on-farm
in anticipation of higher
prices later in the season,
lock in a price at harvest
via the futures market,
buy or sell options). When
combined with enterprise
budget data, the information
can also be used in deciding
which crops to produce in
the coming year.
U.S.
Agricultural Outlook Forums:
WAOB - 1997 to 2000 Forums.
The ERS monthly Agricultural
Outlook and Agricultural
Outlook Archives
Weekly Outlook Report from
a joint project of the University
of Illinois and Purdue University
Cooperative Extension Services,
brings marketing analyses
to agricultural producers
and other interested parties
throughout the Midwest.
Or you might want to read
up on Illinois and Purdue's
Weekly Outlook Newsletter,
or Grain and Livestock Price
Outlook Newsletter at: http://web.aces.uiuc.edu/farm.doc/marketing/newsletters.html
The
rest of the web site is
quite appealing and also
includes links to daily
and weekly reports, plus
a selection of prices and
quotes.
Follow Atinet's Agnews web
page for daily, weekly and
monthly reports on California
and elsewhere.
For the dairy sector, connect
to the California Department
of Food and Agriculture's
monthly Price Letter.
View also the California
Agricultural Statistical
Service's monthly outlook
web pages, which includes
annual bulletin summaries
and more.
And click here for the links
to ALL the other State statistical
offices across the U.S.:
it's all here!
For grain, a very good site
is the Minneapolis Grain
Exchange's web page on links
to cash market reports,
with data from the Minneapolis,
Portland and St. Joseph,
MO, AMS Offices as well
as a link to all AMS Grain
Market Reports. This site
can be found at: http://www.mgex.com/
General
The North American Agricultural
Marketing Officials (NAAMO)
try to promote education,
communication and cooperation
and enhance worldwide market
opportunities for North
American agricultural products.
The NAAMO Discussion Area
has been created for use
by state (U.S.) and province
(Canada) agricultural marketing
officials as a means of
communication through the
Internet. It is intended
to be a forum to post questions,
views, problems, comments,
and advice. Their site can
be found at: http://www.naamo.org/
Canada
The Market Analysis
Division of Agriculture
Canada, provides timely
market information, analysis
and forecasting of supply,
demand, trade and prices
for the domestic and international
grains and oilseeds sectors
to industry and governments.
Its Bi-weekly Bulletin provides
market information and in-depth
analysis on specific issues
covering domestic and international
grains and oilseeds markets.
The publication discusses
a wide range of topics including
country profiles and commodity
outlooks with an emphasis
on Canadian competitiveness,
market development, diversification
and value added.
Also
available through email,
this subscription is free.
Markets reports: British
Columbia | Alberta | Saskatchewan
| Manitoba | Ontario (Statistics)
| Québec (French,
Statistiques) | New Brunswick
| Prince Edward Island |
Nova Scotia | Newfoundland
& Labrador
Pool Commodity Trading Service
- market comments, western
Canada | Manitoba Pork Marketing
| Alberta Pork | Ontario
Cattle |
Latin
America
Chile. For those
interested in South American
countries, the Chilean Ministry
of Agriculture has a great
site. Although in Spanish,
you will find prices and
time-series data for various
commodities such as grains,
fruits and vegetables, and
for various fertilizers
as well. Also available
at their site are general
macroeconomic data on Chile,
agricultural outlook reports
as well as a few grain prices
for Argentina. Select one
of the choices on the left:
Cifras de la Agricultura
but all the links are interesting.
Perú. The Peruvian
Ministry of Agriculture
has set up excellent market
information web pages. You
will find monthly prices
for various regions in Perú
for grains, different types
of potatoes, fruits, vegetables,
several meats, eggs, milk
and coffee. Production,
yield, price of fertilizers,
trade, weather and cost
of production statistics
are also available.
Start
your search under Estadística
agraria and select daily,
monthly to yearly statistics.
Argentina. A much improved
web site, the Ministry of
Agriculture has made available
much market information
and outlook reports. Select
from the list on the left,
you will find many statistics
and prices for various agricultural
commodities, on soils, trade,
costs of production and
much more.
The
Agriculture Series offers
daily to yearly and time
series market information.
Although mostly in Spanish,
a good part of the site
is available in English,
just click on the English
Version link at the top-right.
For example, you will find
well presented documents
in English on mad cow disease
and on Argentina Wheat.
Europe
U.K. Commercial:
Farming
On-line are based in the
UK and are a subscriber
service for 2500 high end
U.K farmers, they have direct
feeds to Dow Jones for up-to-date
commodity news, plus a joint
venture with the UK's National
Farmers Union to make them
a leading supplier of UK
on-line agricultural information.
Try their free trial service.
The Home Growers Cereal
Authority Market Information
(HGCA MI) web site is quite
interesting, although commercial
and you need to subscribe,
some pages of their weekly
bulletins are free. They
promote a variety of publications
but you will find some pdf
files available on weekly
prices, trade statistics,
and daily reports for the
UK, EU and world grain markets,
simply click on the tabs
on the right side of the
home page.
U.K. Free market information:
Gerson - UK grain traders,
market reports and prices.
Dotfarming - Daily prices
for grain, oilseeds, potatoes,
cattle and sheep (registration
needed, is free).
BDR Agriculture - Daily
grain market report.
France Statistiques agroalimentaires,
prix et données du
Ministère d'Agriculture.
Germany For Deutschen Agrarinformationsnetz,
go to DAINET's web site.
Poland You can get weekly
prices for wheat, rye, barley,
potatoes, piglets, eggs,
apples and onions, milk
and milk products. Information
on commodity exchanges is
also available in Polish,
and twice a week, they publish
wholesale prices of fruit
and vegetables. Available
from the Polish Ministry
of Agriculture and Food
Economy Department of Information
Moldova and some major markets
from Russia, Ukraine and
Romania Many good to links
to market related business
information in the area
and of particular interest
are the weekly retail and
wholesale price information
for fruits, vegetables,
livestock and more, - in
Italian and English. See
CAMIB
The
Lithuanian Agricultural
International Trade Agency
has set up a web site on
market information for Lithuania.
Although most of the web
site and all publications
are in Lithuanian, some
pages are available in English.
Published every three weeks,
their publications cover
dairy, meat and grain sectors.
Look for the Rinkos informacija
page to find market information.
For publications, go to
Leidiniai internete.
They
also offer a link to Food-fair.com,
a virtual trade fair where
companies can put up information
about themselves, their
products and contact information.
Similar to the fair above,
a subdivision of the virtual
trade fair is dedicated
to the Baltic Region Baltic.food-fair.com
Russia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan,
Chuvashia and the Kyrgyzskoy
Republic.
Many resources are available
from the Ministry of Agriculture
and Food of the Russian
Federation. Available in
English is the Ukrainian
agrimarket weekly report.
Click here for this report.
On the Russian home page
just below the date, click
on the first word just below
on the left to Ceneinformation.
It will bring you to a page
with price information on
various sources such as
Information from the inter-republican
universal commodity exchange
in Moscow where prices of
metals, oil, and foodstuffs
on the international exchanges
are available. Plus, prices,
outlook reports and more
are available for the Kyrgyzskoy
Republic with prices of
basic food goods for markets
in provincial centers and
for Bishkeka; for Chuvashia
and for Uzbekistan. Further
market related information
is available from the Ministry's
web site: such as fertilizer
and machinery prices, statistics
on agricultural production,
databases, economic and
statistical indices, grain
production, milk yields
and production (weekly),
statistical information
on the regions of Russia,
economic news of countries
of the CIS, and information
on inputs, hay/fodder, harvests,
and mechanization.
Only in Russian, you can
get the state of food markets
information bulletin (every
two weeks) for the various
regions in the Russian Federation
here. In it you will find
retail prices for meats,
poultry, oils, milk and
cheese, bread, flour, sugar,
and various fruits and vegetables.
Selling prices at the wholesale
level are also available
for the same commodities.
Producer prices are also
given for the regions on
several grains, oilseeds,
sugar, fruits and vegetables,
pigs and more.
Asia-Pacific
Australia F@rming
Online, gateway to Australian
agriculture, offers a good
number of market reports
on cotton, financial, grains,
livestock, meat and wool.
Browse other sections of
the web site such as weather,
news, forums and even buy
or sell machinery or livestock.
At the Australian Farming
Virtual Library you can
find a good number of links
about Australian agriculture.
A couple of links of interest
available in the Commodity
Prices and Markets section
and several other links
that cover a wide range
of agricultural issues.
New Zealand Agri-Fax is
a commercial information
service which provides New
Zealand agricultural prices
and other primary product
prices: it includes lamb
prices, beef prices, and
venison prices, wheat prices,
dairy product prices including
butter, casein and skim
milk prices, wool prices,
forestry log prices, pine
log prices, rural finance,
and more.
Some
free information is available
- and try their Beef Price
Calculator.
Indonesia.
Very
little market information
here but you will find much
agricultural information
on area harvested, production
and yields for many commodities.
The
Badan Pusat Statistik web
site can be found at: http://www.bps.go.id/statbysector/agri/
The Center for Market and
Information Development
at the Ministry of Agriculture
in Indonesia, runs an agribusiness
web site where some price
reports and market surveys
may be found although not
all has been translated
to English. A good number
of other links to relevant
market information are also
available.
Africa
All in French, the
Market Information System
in Burkina Faso has a web
site where you can download
monthly average commodity
data from 1992 to 1998 plus
weekly data and monthly
averages for 1999. The weekly
bulletin covering 37 markets
is available in the left
column. The link is: http://www.statistika.net/tab_sem.html
Available
in French, the Observatoire
des Marché du Riz
in Senegal has weekly market
bulletins mostly on rice
but includes some maize
and millet.
Available
in French and English, the
Market Information System
in Mali offers monthly bulletins,
some good links, and materials
on l'Observatoire Du Marché
Agricole and l'Assemblée
permanente des chambres
d'agriculture du Mali.
Available
in Portuguese, the market
information system in Mozambique
offers weekly market information
bulletins called Quente-Quente,
as well as monthly bulletins.
All files are in pdf or
Adobe Acrobat format. Strong
analysis, many tables and
graphics, they even include
comments on foreign markets.
The bulletins may be found
at Michigan State University's
food security project Mozambique
web page, go to the bottom
of the page. The link is:
http://www.aec.msu.edu/agecon/fs2/mozambique/index.htm
In
Zimbabwe, you may start
on their homepage where
you can find the links to
market information, commodities,
inputs and weather, as well
as other related links at:
http://www.samara.co.zw/CFU/index.html
For agricultural prices
in Zimbabwe, for grains
(weekly) go to: http://www.samara.co.zw/zimace/
For livestock (monthly),
go to: http://www.samara.co.zw/CFU/marketing/livestock.html
For
South Africa, the South
African futures market (SAFEX)
has a lot of information
available and consists of
financial and agricultural
divisions.
But for those interested
in obtaining the data directly,
link to: ftp://mail.safex.co.za/pub/
Apart
from SAFEX, other stock
exchanges in Africa do exist.
Although
market information is hard
to find, for those interested,
exchanges for over 18 countries
are listed at Mbendi's site:
http://mbendi.co.za/exaf.htm
For
other links to agricultural
resources in South Africa,
the best place to start
would be the National Department
of Agriculture. It has links
to regional departments
and related SA agricultural
sites. The URLs are: http://www.agric.za/
Other
sources of information on
Africa can be found on other
well organized web sites
depending on what you are
looking for.
The
USAID has an excellent site
for regional information
on Africa. Available through
their site is the Africa
Data Dissemination Service,
AfricaLink, Famine Early
Warning System, Horn Information
Exchange, Initiative-Africa
GII Gateway and information
on natural resources management.
Some market information
is available such as food
and calorie production,
food aid, and so on.
You
may download agricultural
statistics for each African
country through their data
dissemination service or
find reports on food security,
production or aid through
other links, such as teff
production for Ethiopia
or calorie production in
the Sahel.
Through
the famine early warning
system, monthly country
updates are available as
well as special reports.
For example, you can find
a report on "Maize
meal prices continue to
fall in Zambia" for
the month of July 2006.
The
AfricaLink section has good
information on Internet
service providers (ISP),
connectivity and costs in
Africa. Their web site is
located at: http://www.info.usaid.gov/regions/afr/
The
World Bank has set up web
pages on Africa that offer
special reports, based on
recent bank-sponsored research,
such as "Ensuring Food
Security in Mali" in
their Findings section,
or you may also read infobriefs
on best practices. Reports
do not necessarily pertain
to agriculture but cover
many subjects. You may find
their site at: http://www.worldbank.org/afr/findings/default.htm
The
SADC Food Security Programme
- SADC Food Security and
Technical Administrative
Unit (FSTAU) in Harare -
Zimbabwe. At this Internet
site, you will find food
security quarterly bulletins,
food security updates, agro-meteorological
updates, monthly bulletins
on the status of the growing
season, local seeds system
news, satellite images,
database on food and agriculture
in SADC and much more. You
can access specific information
for each of the SADC countries,
based on the SADC FSTAU
and FAO-GIEWS databases.
You
can also click on a map
for individual country information.
Other sections available
from the web site are: SADC
Regional Early Warning System,
Famine Early Warning System,
Remote Sensing Project,
Food Security Training Programme,
Small Scale Seed Production
Project, Food Security Database
Project, SADC EIS/GIS Technical
Unit, Regional Food and
Nutritional Information
System, and the SADC Centre
of Communication for Development.
The URL is: http://www.sadc-fanr.org.zw/
Specific
Commodities
Grains
CIMMYT
offers a variety of publications,
of particular interest is
the Annual Maize and Wheat
Facts and Trends report.
Go to Resource Center at
the top, then click on Economics
Program in the right column.
Looking for Grain Boards,
Grain Pools, Grain governmental
organizations, Grain companies,
to Grower associations,
Producers and Research,
this is a good guide: the
Grains Virtual Library.
Currently replaced with
the Grain Zone.
A
well organised page of links
to grain marketing across
the U.S., for daily and
weekly market commentaries,
brokers, quotes, charts
and more, visit the Grain
Marketing Page.
Rice: Probably one of the
hardest and most elusive
commodities to find any
market information on the
web.
The Singapore Business Times,
now AsiaOneMarkets, offer
a great variety of market
information on commodities
(SICOM Futures).
Not
only can we get daily FOB
Thai rice prices (covering
several white, broken, loonzain
and parboiled rice) but
prices for many more agricultural
commodities varying from
palm, kernel and coconut
oil, to coffee, cocoa, sugar,
copra, nutmeg and rubber
from Liffe, Rotterdam, to
CBOT and Singapore of course.
Non-agricultural commodities
such as crude oil and metals
can also be found. BT commodities
also puts out an excellent
Weekly Commodity Summary
(updated every Monday).
Rice yearbooks and outlook
reports are available from
the Mann Library from 1996
to 1999. It includes U.S.
rice production, supply,
disappearance, trade, and
price data. It also includes
state acreage, yield, and
production data; U.S. and
world price series; and
price support program statistics.
The FAO regularly publishes
data on rice export prices
and has an export price
index with sub-indices on
long, medium/short grain
rice as well as sub-indices
on high and low quality
rice.
The
index was constructed in
the 80s and has regularly
been revised and weighted,
to reflect the huge changes
that have occurred in the
rice export market. They
are published in rice market
reports on a monthly basis.
See the Rice Situation Update.
You may also find information
on rice in their Commodity
Market Review section.
Soybeans
Probably
the best web site for soybean
information is StratSoy.
StratSoy is an information
and communication system
for the United States soybean
industry, funded by the
United Soybean Board, developed
and maintained by the University
of Illinois.
Palm
Oil
The
Malaysian Palm Oil Promotion
Council offers daily, weekly
and monthly market information
for the country's palm oil
industry, including FOB
prices in US$. Select the
Market and Statistics link.
You may also find a good
number of statistics and
prices at the Palm Oil Research
Institute of Malaysia or
(PORIM).
Fruits
and vegetables
A
new and upgraded site, this
is the place to be when
looking for market information
for fruits and vegetable.
Make sure to obtain a password
registration. The site has
daily price information
on more than 120 fruit and
vegetable commodities from
all the wholesale markets
of USA, Canada, Mexico and
Europe.
Today's
Market Prices now includes
a weekly report from the
Rotterdam Fruit and Vegetables
Exchange Auction Market,
that reflects the movement
of the most important point
of entry of Europe; a bi-weekly
report from Japan (the F&V
prices of the Tokyo Central
Wholesale Ota Market); and
daily Shipping Points prices
of the USA, which makes
them somewhat unique in
their category.
Although the MIS web site
also covers many other commodities,
you may find terminal market
prices for fruit and vegetables
for different cities around
the world.
They
take their information from
the USDA Agricultural Marketing
Service (AMS). Look for
the AMS F&V links. You
may find their site for
terminal market prices for
fruit and vegetables at:
http://www.ifas.ufl.edu/~marketing/market.html
The National Food and Agricultural
Policy Project at Arizona
State University - East,
offers annual historical
data and forecasts until
the year 2008 for the U.S.,
value of production, per
capita consumption and crop
utilization.
Calling itself "The
Global HomePage for the
Fruit & Vegetable Trade,"
FruitNet's objective is
to supply up-to-date and
accurate prices of fresh
fruit and vegetables in
the main European and South
African markets. You may
find the latest Johannesburg
market prices as well as
daily market prices of certain
areas of the world if you
follow the London report
link.
You
may reach FruitNet at: http://www.fruitnet.com/
The Global Agribusiness
Information Network offers
world market information
and reports on tropical
horticultural products such
as papaya, mango, vanilla,
avocado, and so on.
They
also offer access to articles
from periodicals such as
"Tropical Produce Marketing
News" and "Market
Asia." You may also
link up to wholesale price
reports covering North America
and Europe. You may also
want to check out their
other agricultural links.
A
great resource of news,
prices, and reports on sugar.
But best of all, they have
set up a great number of
links by country, very useful.
Visit Sugar Online.com.
Be sure to visit the rest
of the web site as they
have an amazing number of
related links. A real one-stop
site on sugar.
Hogs
A
good site to start is the
Packer's Trading Company's
hog marketing forecast web
page. Based in Chicago,
they use the Chicago Mercantile
exchange for settlement
prices. They can be found
at: http://www.agfutures.com/index.html
Cattle
and Livestock
For
U.S. live and feeder cattle
cash and futures markets
as well as daily market
reports, try the Texas based
trading floor at: http://www.agcenter.com/default2.asp
The Livestock Marketing
Information Center has excellent
sources of information from
weekly production to prices,
quick market reports to
current situations. They
also have a very good number
on links related to the
sector and elsewhere.
Well
organised and easy access.
For more market information
on livestock and other sectors,
the Weekly Insiders Retail
Report provides busy buyers
and sellers with a quick
snapshot of market trends
and conditions in the poultry,
meat, seafood, dairy, and
egg industries.
The
report is in pdf format.
Agriculture.com is another
site not to be missed: market
news, prices, reports and
many good links.
Two other great agricultural
resources for livestock
are: Oklahoma State University's
Livestock Virtual Library
and The Breeds of Livestock
Information Project.
Finally, the National Cattlemen's
Beef Association maintains
a site with a wealth of
information on science &
regulatory, conservation,
federal lands, property
rights, farm policy, tax
& credit, food &
nutrition, foreign trade
and much more. In addition,
it has judicial, regulatory
and legislative updates
covering the above topics
as well as beef safety,
cattle health & well-being,
international markets, live-cattle
marketing, inspection, check-off,
position papers, bills,
press releases, you name
it. See the Cattlemen on
the Hill.
Meatnet is one of the best
sources of links around.
Statistics and prices from
around the world. Take your
time, there are many good
links.
A good complimentary resource
is Iowa State University's
Animal Market Information
web page.
Kansas State U. offers Livestock
and Crops Market Updates
(in pdf format). See also
the K-State Livestock &
Meat Marketing Institute's
web page. The prices, basis
charts, and livestock market
outlook radio interview
are posted weekly every
Monday.
For information on the economics
of raising and marketing
beef cattle, check out Harlan
Hughes' Market Advisor for
prairie beef producers.
Forages, pasture, silage
and hay.
Following
livestock, market information
of forages may be of great
interest. Morgan's web site
provides forage economics
such as a table summarizing
hay prices throughout the
U.S. as well as links to
the USDA weekly hay reports.
They have also just begun
adding private hay reports
with the Auction at Fort
Atkinson, Iowa. Other locations
are expected to be added
shortly.
There
is also pasture and silage
information available. In
addition to their work on
forages, in joint venture
with the American Beef Cattleman
magazine (the official publication
of the Beef Improvement
Federation), their site
is the Purebred Beef Cattle
Sales site as well.
Here
you will find listings of
beef seedstock auctions
as well as private treaty,
sale managers, feedlots,
book publishers and other
services to the beef industry.
Use the following links
by section: for forage,
hay, silage and pasture,
and for purebred beef cattle
sales.
Seafood and more
One
of the rare and few places
where you find market trends
and conditions for seafood.
Click Seafoodnet.com, developed
by Urner Barry Publications
Inc.
Cotton
World
cotton prices are taken
from the Cotlook A and B
indices. For market summaries,
trends and graphs, Cotlook
daily, cifquotes and the
indices, try Cotlook Limited's
web pages at: http://www.cotlook.com/
The International Cotton
Advisory Committee (ICAC)
also has web pages under
their cotton information
section that include many
papers, graphs and trends,
mailing lists, and supply
and use by country. To obtain
the latest market information
and monthly updates, you
must pay for the service.
The rest of the site is
free and most is available
in pdf format (Adobe acrobat
reader).
The
Agricultural Commodities
Exchange site is for use
by all players in various
sub-sectors: growers, producers,
traders, brokers, manufacturers
and retailers who buy, sell
and trade in agricultural
commodities. One of the
very few who have information
on NUTS, cashews, walnuts,
hazel nuts, pistachios and
much more! You can advertise
your company, and bid or
offer for a growing range
of commodities.
There
are reports on factors affecting
prices and production. Weather
reports and price and production
graphs are also being developed.
The International Tree Nut
Council has several pages
on world consumption and
production trends, a good
overview of annual statistics
and comparison between countries.
The link is: http://inc.treenuts.org/
Learn more about chocolate
and find the daily price
for cocoa beans as well
as a market summary at the
International Cocoa Organization.
The
International Coffee Organization
offers market related information
such as world trade, production
and daily to monthly prices
for various world markets
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