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08 Nov 2024
In October 2024, wheat prices reached multi-month highs due to weather-related planting delays in parts of the northern hemisphere, although they later eased as field conditions improved. Maize prices also strengthened slightly despite swift harvest progress in the [...]
03 Sep 2015
How can market indicators be interpreted? A new series of video tutorials reviews the technical charts published in the AMIS Market Monitor report. The first edition focuses on the "Commitments of Traders" chart which visualizes the volume of futures [...]
27 Jul 2015
End of the second round of the AMIS Exchange Programme. After nine weeks with the AMIS Secreteriat, five intensive learning modules and some 20 presentations by the AMIS commodity experts, Mr. Dongjie Wang from the Chinese Academy of [...]
02 Jul 2015
On the occasion of the launch of this year’s edition of the OECD-FAO Agricultural Outlook, the heads of both contributing organizations highlighted the important role of the Agricultural Market Information System (AMIS) in stabilizing market conditions. Noting that [...]
23 Jun 2015
Last night, the latest EU Sentinel satellite was sent up to space from French Guiana. Sentinel-2A will improve global agricultural monitoring by providing global coverage at 10-20 m resolution. Together with the Sentinel-1A SAR sensor (operational since October 2014) [...]
17 Jun 2015
AMIS Secretary, Mr. Abdolreza Abbassian, presented the "World Grain Market Situation and Outlook - An AMIS Perspective" at this year's IGC Grains Conference in London, 9 June 2015. Questions discussed at the conference included:
What is the impact of [...]