Softs

Arabica trades on the New York exchange in 37,500 pound contracts with certified warehouse stocks behind delivery, while robusta t...

Ivory Coast and Ghana grow about 60 percent, on smallholder farms with aging trees, disease, and underinvestment, with state marke...

Raw sugar trades 112,000 pound contracts in New York, white sugar in London, and Brazil, the top producer and exporter by far, set...

New York trades 50,000 pound contracts deliverable against certified warehouse receipts. China and India lead production, the US i...

ICE frozen concentrated orange juice trades 15,000 pound contracts in New York, the market made famous by the movie Trading Places...

Natural rubber comes from tapping hevea trees, Thailand the top producer, with Indonesia, Vietnam, and Malaysia following, smallho...

Some 75 million tonnes yearly, over a third of all vegetable oil, come from Indonesia, the dominant producer and exporter, and Mal...

CME random length futures trade 110,000 board feet, cash settled against a framing lumber index, and the contract went from obscur...

Muriate of potash, the standard 60 percent K2O product, ships in tonnes from Saskatchewan, which holds giant evaporite deposits an...

Morocco holds the majority of world reserves and exports rock and processed fertilizer, China is the top producer, and the US, fro...

Chemical pulping dissolves lignin, and bleached kraft pulp in hardwood and softwood grades makes printing paper, packaging, and ti...

Types split black, green, oolong, and white from one plant, with grades and leaf styles running from whole leaf to the fannings an...

China grows the most, Brazil, India, and Zimbabwe follow, with Zimbabwe tobacco a top foreign exchange earner and Brazil the top e...

Vanilla comes from the cured pods of an orchid that must be hand pollinated flower by flower outside its native Mexico, and Madaga...

Black pepper is the dried unripe fruit of a tropical vine, and white pepper is the same fruit with its outer skin removed. Vietnam...

Jute is a long, soft bast fiber grown mainly in the Ganges delta, with India and Bangladesh producing nearly all of the world crop...