Platts Market Data - Agriculture

**Overview**

Platts agriculture price assessments provide a basis for trade across commodities and the world. But in this increasingly integrated and globalized environment, understanding the correlation between regions and sectors in order to compete effectively has never been more important.

Platts Market Data - Agriculture provides access to the full breadth and depth of our agriculture market data, including benchmarks and contract price assessments, plus:

-A more connected view of the influences on the price of sugar, grains, oilseeds, vegetable oils, animal feed & protein and biofuels through access to the industry’s only integrated data sets across commodities, regions and verticals

-Historical data to enable you to look at past market trends to inform your future plans and back testing needs

-Combining this with the power of Platts standardized benchmark data will drive consistency and reduce basis risk throughout your organization - from strategy, trading and planning, to treasury and asset optimization

-A robust and transparent methodology that brings consistency to our biofuels, sugar, grains, oilseeds and veg oils price assessments through principles and parameters that guide our market specialists at every stage of the process

Dataset Overview:

North America
-Ethanol Chicago
-Ethanol NYH Barge
-Ethanol T2 FOB Rotterdam
-US Soybeans
-US Corn
-US DDGS

EMEA
-EU Biodiesel
-EU Ethanol
-European ETBE and RINs
-Black Sea Wheat and Corn
-Black Sea Sunflower Oil
-European Palm Oil and Distillates
-European Sugar

APAC
-Asian ethanol
-Australian Wheat
-South Korean Corn
-SOYBEX CFR China
-Asian Palm Oil and Distillates
-Asian Sugar

LATAM
-NNE Brazil Ethanol
-Brazilian and Argentinian Corn
-Brazilian and Argentinian Soybeans
-Argentinian Soybean Oil and Meal
-Brazilian Sugar

**Use cases**

- Asset Valuation - Evaluate ROI for energy/commodities projects and assets
- Quantitative Analysis - Leverage SPGCI data to design and implement complex and insightful models to support energy and commodities trading
- ESG Investment Analysis - Combine SPGCI data with project data-sets into models for visibility, optimizations, and collaboration
- Risk Analysis - Utilize SPGCI's independent, verifiable Risk data to support all risk management functions including validation of internal valuations and better align risk tolerance with business strategy
- Fundamental Analysis - Connect SPGCI pricing data with financial and operations data, and sensing technology to optimize decision-making on spending, productivity and cycle time
- Supply Chain - Integrate SPGCI data to optimize pipeline network management and commercial processes while enabling more effective predictive operations

**Product details**

Sample Tables:
A ) PRICEDATA
B ) REF_DATA_MARKETDATA

Sample Fields:
A ) PRICEDATA
SYMBOL
MDC
DESCRIPTION
BATE
ASSESSDATE
UOM
CURRENCY

B ) REF_DATA_MARKETDATA
COMMODITY
DELIVERY_REGION
DESCRIPTION

View Descriptions:

- PRICEDATA - Get the latest and historical assessments by Symbol
- CORRECTIONS - Get all corrections to the assessments by Symbol
- REF_DATA_MARKETDATA - Get additional reference data for Symbols
- MARKETDATA_DICTIONARY - Contains descriptions and examples of each of the columns in the above views for a better understanding of the dataset