This week, we discuss the flooding in Asia affecting Thailand’s sugarcane crop and Vietnam’s coffee regions, alongside the untimely rains across Europe, the UK, and Central America impacting sugar beet and coffee. We also analyze the risk of unwelcome rain in key cocoa-producing areas of Africa.

After 3 consecutive seasons in which sugar was highly lucrative and prompted greater production in Brazil, the tables have turned — ethanol is now yielding higher returns than sugar, marking the first time this has happened in over three years. Price parity between the two indicates that ethanol currently holds a premium of around 1 cent over sugar, a gap that widens as sugar prices decline.  At the same time, Brazil has been boosting ethanol demand through measures such as t

In this exclusive report, we analyze the findings of our latest Brazil sugarcane farmer survey, which featured the views of associations...

The #sugar market experienced a sharp -0.9c selloff today, breaking below the lower boundary of the well-established 3-month...