Author Archives: cropsignalnews

We have added a new topic that consolidates commodity pricing for major commodity contracts and options.  The topic comes in two forms – a basic one that provides easy access to standard OHLC charts and tables as well as an … Continue reading →

RSS feeds can now be shared with other user’s or groups.  Click to edit a feed and then click ‘Share with other users/groups’ to choose other particular users or groups to share with.

New reports have been added for Coceral, EU Commission Balance Sheets, and Copa-Cogeca forecasts.  They can be found in the Reports topic.

In order to make CropSignal more accessible to new users, we have added a new default Snapshot Topic that only requires a user to select one crop type and one location (World or Country) and can quickly view National or … Continue reading →

New reports from Rural Bank and Australia Oilseeds Federation are available in the Reports topic.

We have added Min/Max versions of the Area, Yield, and Production variables in the Annual Crop Stats Topic.  This was implemented to support sources (namely Brazil’s CONAB, and GDA forecasts) which provide upper and lower limits to their area and … Continue reading →

You can now add a second variable to the label on every location on a map.  For example, you can set the main map variable (classifier and label) as the percent change from the 5 YR Avg, but also include … Continue reading →

New week modes that label explicit dates have been added to the Seasonal Analysis topic.  Previously, the data were listed with just week numbers (with optional years), but now an approximated date for the end of the week (e.g. ‘Apr … Continue reading →

A new source of reports has been added to the CropSignal inventory, available within the Reports topic.  The source is Pakistan Agriculture Research (listed as PAR) which releases reports for Pakistan for Cotton, Palm Oil, Cotton, Wheat, and Dairy.

Within the Seasonal Analysis Topic, GDA has added new derived variables to help analyze the NDVI time-series for a particular administrative unit location and crop type.  These frequency variables show the percentage of pixels for a given MODIS NDVI composite … Continue reading →