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12 OctMon 06:56
Softs
Natural rubber hits 13-year high as Asian supply thins, China stocks fall
Synthetic butadiene rubber still trades nearly a fifth below natural rubber in Shanghai, reversing March's order, as ANRPC cuts its 2026 output forecast and Chinese stocks slide
5 OctMon 11:32
Cotton
Bunge cotton chief proposes Brazil price benchmark as exports outstrip US
World's biggest cotton exporter still hedges on an ICE contract deliverable only in US-grown fibre
28 SepMon 18:40
Cocoa
Record September rain soaks Ecuador cocoa belt as El Niño arrives early
Guayaquil logs its wettest September since 1961 and a Quevedo station nearly six times its normal rain, as growers and exporters warn of flower loss and frosty pod rot ahead of the March-April crop
4 AugTue 22:06
Sugar
Europe's official sugar forecasts were written before drought reached beet crop
USDA and the European Commission both cut their 2026/27 outlooks on low prices, not weather. EU beet area is already down 14.8 per cent in two years, and July was the driest since 1940 at every one of Cropli's UK monitoring points.
30 JulThu 18:12
Free Read
England's farm water restrictions double as beet belt records its driest July in 86 years
Hands-off-flow limits on abstraction licences went from 729 to 1,506 in three weeks, while the government's drought reporting still does not name sugar beet or potatoes
30 AprThu 15:12
Cotton
China cuts Xinjiang cotton area as dry planting window tests groundwater policy
Beijing's 36-million-mu cap takes effect during a 31-day dry spell at Aksu, with ECMWF putting the odds of meaningful rain in the next two weeks at under 2 per cent
28 AprTue 21:05
Coffee
Guatemala's $632m US coffee year set up for retreat as arabica eases below $3
Record arabica prices drove a $196m jump in invoice value while supply shrank, with the world's fourth-largest arabica producer riding the global benchmark rather than expanding output
9 FebMon 18:47
Coffee
China's coffee market booms but per-capita gap signals more growth ahead
The average Chinese consumer drank an estimated 22 cups of coffee in 2024. That figure compares with 405 cups in South Korea and 207 in Japan