Speedwell Weather - Commodities Summary

By using over 1500 reference stations worldwide the Speedwell Commodity Product monitors weather variables for over 25 crops in over 45 countries.

Features

Brings weather data and forecasts directly to the trader in a concise format for a wide range of global agricultural crop areas.
Daily Alerts email service provided for key events in every crop, prioritised by severity
Monitored variables include:
- Temperature
- Cumulative rainfall
- Growing degree days
- Heat-stress
- Frosts
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Drill-down allows all components to be viewed in detail
The crop/country indexes are based upon regional baskets of weather observing sites to provide the most accurate ground truth.
Combined with the very latest forecast trends, the user gains both an overview of the region and tools to analyse the data down to the station level

Features - Crop Coverage

Crops covered include:

Soybean
Wheat
Sugar
Canola
Coffee
Cotton
Corn
Rice

Cocoa
Palm Oil
Oats
Almonds
Barley
Sunflower
Potatoes
Citrus

And others.

Features - Flex Indices & Forecasts

The commodity product provides access to over 200 regional Index forecasts with underlying data covering major crop growing regions around the world.
Access to over 150 population-weighted basket forecasts (“Flex”) for countries and regions world-wide. Custom Indexes can be created on request, please contact us to find out more.
Forecasts includes data for daily TMin, daily TMax and rainfall based on the following models:
- ECMWF 15 day 51-member ensemble
- ECMWF 10 day operational
- ECMWF month ahead ensemble—coupled model
- GFS product 15 day 21-member ensemble
- GFS 15 day operational