On June 22 and 23, I attended the Global AgInvesting 2009 conference in New York, sponsored by Soyatech . This week’s commodity report is a summary of the main themes covered during the two day event.

The timeliness of this conference attracted participants from all over the world, [...]

Yesterday, I had the privilege (compliments of SeekingAlpha) of attending the first WIRED Magazine Disruptive by Design conference, held at the wonderful Morgan Library and Museum in New York. The majority of conferences that I attend are usually research and/or application oriented, where most of the real value from attending comes from discussions at the poster [...]

This table shows the 7 day Cooling Degree Day outlook for major US demand markets.  Colors and value in second row fore each city represent cooling demand vs. the same time of last year.
 
 

In addition to the numerous references to this topic in our weekly commodity newsletters, one of our posts last week mentioned  that we have been monitoring ocean conditions over the last few months to track and forecast conditions that serve as precursors to El Nino development later this year.  To monitor these changes, we now [...]

 
This is another new global mapping capability that is incorporated into our MYskeye  global weather mapping platform.   We have taken global maps that were developed to forecast minimum relative humidity and wind speed/direction, and combined them to construct an index that will be useful to identify global crop regions that may be susceptible to weather [...]

Reuters: US natural gas rig count slips to 6-1/2-yr low.   Ahead of summer hurricane season also.  Article here.