Coffee – the darling of 2021, when it was among the top performing agricultural commodities – suffered a dismal 2022. Arabica coffee was the biggest loser among major ags last year, with a 26% decline, while robusta coffee...
Read MoreSoybean futures achieved a fourth successive year of gains in 2022, a feat not achieved since the 1970s. A somewhat disappointing US harvest, following a drought-reduced Brazilian one earlier in the year, supported prices amid...
Read MoreCotton futures proved one of the agricultural commodity sector’s worst performers of 2022. With losses of 25% so far, they are on course for their worst year since 2014, undermined in particular by worsened world economic...
Read MoreRaw sugar prices will rise for a fourth consecutive year in 2022, the first such run since the 1980s. Prices have been buoyed by factors such as disappointment at prospects for output in India – where cane yields are...
Read MoreCorn prices are poised for a fifth successive year of gains in 2022 – their longest winning streak since the 1940s. As then, war has this year played a role, with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine curbing production and exports from...
Read MoreWho is right on the sugar price outlook? While Fitch Solutions sees prices averaging in 2023 their highest in more than a decade, Rabobank has a far more downbeat view, foreseeing values falling for the first time since 2017....
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