Hello, I sometimes lack basics of physical trading to understand the ag markets. Is there a website which displays the basics of world agricultural trade like ,per commodity and per year, world production, export availability, end of crop carry over, biggest importer, exporter... Thanks a lot.
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From an ags trader's standpoint, world reference for agriculture fundamentals is USDA's data. The agency updates its SD balance sheets on a monthly basis. These data are published in several USDA reports: WASDE report: http://www.usda.gov/oce/commodity/wasde Oilseeds Market and Trade: http://www.fas.usda.gov/data/oilseeds-world-markets-and-trade Grains World market & Trade: http://www.fas.usda.gov/data/grain-world-markets-and-trade All these data are (and more, actually) are also accessible via queries at: http://apps.fas.usda.gov/psdonline/psdQuery.aspx Market also trades US Crop progress and conditions: http://usda.mannlib.cornell.edu/MannUsda/viewDocumentInfo.do?documentID=1048 USDA has attachés gathering infos and data across the globe. Attachés publishes notes regularly on any agriculture-related subject: http://gain.fas.usda.gov/Pages/Default.aspx It is worth digging in the USDA's webportal. There is almost anything one needs to trade fundamentals (weather, agronomy, trade, fundamentals, regulatory framework, ...).