Agriculture forecasts

Anticipate global agricultural market trends and dynamics

The lack of trusted information or uncertainty about tomorrow costs money, as miscalculating the future direction of the market can negatively impact trading strategies and tactics.

Fastmarkets Agriculture provides objective forecasts on the global agricultural markets. Using our forecasting and analytics services, you will access crucial data projections for strategic planning and decision-making, enabling you to align procurement and pricing strategies with market trends. This not only helps you gain a competitive edge but also minimizes risks associated with market volatility.

Whether you’re involved in commodities trading, supply chain management or strategic planning, our detailed analyses and forecasts empower you to stay ahead of the market.

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With Fastmarkets you can stay up to date with an ever-changing industry and make better forecasting calculations

Featured agriculture historical prices and trends
While analysis can help predict price movements and trends in the agriculture markets at national, regional and global levels, our forecasts for commodities including grains, oilseeds, animal fats and oils are backed by a thorough IOSCO-approved price reporting service. Our physical cash market assessments reflect all major bulk agricultural products and their derivatives, and span major global trade hubs.
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What makes our forecasts better?

Our unique history of 150+ years in the agriculture space has allowed us to amass data and experience on agricultural commodities that are unrivaled. Continually we survey the markets to gather additional insights on production and pricing so we can better inform our customers. All our data is fed into our augmented intelligence platform where forecasting is created and measured for accuracy and refinement.

We have no positions in the market, therefore our forecasts are an unbiased report of what the data tells us and what our analysts know of the markets.

We share our forecast history so you can see where we’ve been accurate and where we’ve missed the mark. We iterate our measurements based on our results, to continually refine our forecasting abilities.

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With Fastmarkets you can stay up to date with an ever-changing industry and make better forecasting calculations

Agriculture market insights

Know what’s moving your markets and the forces driving change

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Fastmarkets’ agriculture events provide insights-rich and network-centric experiences to enable trading and guide strategic decisions

We recognize the importance of being clear about our price assessment and index process. Our independently audited pricing process aligns with core IOSCO principles. Find out how our price reporters and analysts assess and forecast prices in agriculture, forest products and metals


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