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Commodity and food prices are increasingly influenced by geopolitical trade disputes and volatile weather patterns. Navigate uncertainty with current and future price discovery tools, and medium- or long-term supply and demand outlooks, to make informed decisions.
Facts about the global Food Commodities market:
China, India, Brazil and the US dominate global food commodity production and export and import markets, across a variety of agricultural and food sectors.
Over one million hectares are dedicated to crops production globally with the four largest in area being wheat, corn, rice, and soybeans.
India replaced Brazil as the world’s largest producer of sugar in 2018/19.
China produces and consumes nearly 50% of all pork globally.
Turkey is the leading producer and exporter of hazelnuts, accounting for an estimated 80% of world supply.
Food Commodities Sectors
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Crops
Crops are the basic building blocks of global agriculture, providing the basic food, animal feed and fiber. Crops are broadly split into three categories, grains that are used for food, grains that are used for animal feed, and oilseeds used to produce vegetable oils and animal feed meals.
Foods & Ingredients
The processed food sector comprises trade of a variety of fruits and vegetables in frozen, canned, concentrate and dehydrated forms plus nuts, spices and exotic ingredients.
Proteins
Proteins are the animal-based proteins in a balanced human diet. It includes poultry, eggs, pork, beef, and dairy. This is a rapidly growing and changing part of the food supply chain.
Softs
There are hardly any food products manufactured globally that do not involve the use of soft commodities, defined as sugar, coffee, coffee and molasses.
Agricultural Bilateral Import & Export Trade Data
Cost analyzer platform with over 3,000 global data sets to enable supply chain cost savings with 10-year cost and price forecasts across all agricultural products and inputs, from edible food commodities to paper and plastic packaging and wages.
Chemical Food Additives
Five-year outlooks and extensive industry data on more than 300 core chemicals markets, including those related to food such as acids, oils, sweeteners, flavors and other additives.
Who we help
Trading and Finance
Calculating risk, understanding long-term market movements and responding to volatile price changes are key to your success. Stay ahead of the market with the widest range of global price forecasts and supply & demand data available.
Procurement and Manufacturing
Your company relies on you to make timely purchases to ensure the best price while avoiding excess stock or shortfalls. Keep on top of changing market conditions with our forecasts, price and production outlooks and wider agribusiness trend analysis.
Policy and Regulation
You are relied upon to stay abreast of the latest news and developments in order to respond quickly to questions from internal stakeholders and communicate relevant and accurate information. Analysis from journalists in Brussels and Washington helps you navigate regulation.
Solutions
At IHS Markit we offer market-leading food commodities information solutions via our Food and Agricultural Commodities Market Reporting and Economics services across 20,000+ datasets. We are specialists in offering comprehensive data and analysis across the global agricultural commodities and processed food markets, with current, short-term and long-term solutions to support all your operational needs.
Food Commodities News
Our Food and Agricultural Commodities Market Reporting service is the market leader in updates and news on the agricultural commodity and processed food markets, with modular channel access available across the breadth of traded foods from wheat and corn to sugar and coffee, to pork and poultry to dried fruit and fresh vegetables. Coverage spans from pricing news and key trends impacting production to incoming legislation and geopolitical impacts to the market. A subscription also includes access to a range of historic data tools covering pricing, trade volumes and production at a granular level.
Weekly and monthly production, trade and price forecasts
Our Food and Agricultural Commodities Economics service is the only service in the market that provides comprehensive analysis of near-term market developments for the 12 months ahead, from market trends to supply-demand, production and price forecasts. Covering everything from wheat, corn and soybean in the crops market, sugar, coffee and cocoa in the softs market, and pork, beef and poultry in the proteins market. A subscription also includes daily market commentary to provide context for daily trading and procurement workflow needs.
Agriculture Forecasting
Our Agriculture Pricing and Purchasing Service enables supply chain cost savings with 10-year cost and price forecasts across all agricultural products and inputs, from edible food commodities to paper and plastic packaging and wages. Over 3,000 global data sets are available via a cost analyser platform that supports clients in understanding escalation rates to improve their business buying performance. Data can also be input into a cost modelling framework that breaks down input costs to manufactured food products.
API and Data Feeds
Pricing, supply-demand and forecasts delivered directly to your organisation to support centralised models and trading systems used by team members across your business.
One-time Data Exports
Over three decades of historical pricing, production and trade data across all food commodities sectors available to purchase to support your organisation with strategic analysis and economic modelling.
Consulting
Consulting services spanning all your needs in the agricultural commodities and processed food markets, from long-term forecasting beyond what is available in our subscription services to market studies for financial investments reviewing everything from market forecasts to competitor intelligence.
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