Sugar, Coffee, Cocoa & Cotton Prices
Prices for crops traded mainly as raw materials for food, drinks and industry - often called "softs" - plus natural fibres and rubber.
Each price is shown in its product's own benchmark unit and for the latest period available, so values of different products are not directly comparable. Open a product page for other currencies and units.
What moves these prices
These crops are grown in a limited number of countries, so weather, disease and policy there move world prices. Energy markets matter too: sugar through ethanol, natural rubber through oil-based synthetic rubber, and cotton and wool through demand from textile makers.
Learn more
- Why Coffee Prices Swing: Biennial Bearing and the Arabica-Robusta Spread
- Sugar and Ethanol: Why Brazil's Mills Can Switch What They Make
- Cotton and Textile Demand: Why It Trades More Like an Industrial Input Than a Food Crop
- The Biggest Cocoa, Coffee and Sugar Companies
- Producer, Wholesale and Retail Prices: Why the Same Grain Has Three Prices
- The FAO Food Price Index Explained