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.
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/
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.coml
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
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).
You
can find ICAC at: http://www.icac.org
Nuts, Dried Fruit, Seeds,
Pulses and Grains
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.
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
of Coffee.
