DATA FOR AGRICULTURE & FOOD TRADE
Compare crop prices, sourcing markets, and freight costs.
Use USDA market and transport reports, FAOSTAT trade data, and World Bank commodity benchmarks in Atlas Verified. Compare them with your supplier offers, specifications, and delivery terms before making a buying or selling decision.
Compare reported prices for the commodity, grade, market, and week you buy · Research reported trade by origin, destination, and year · Check relevant grain or refrigerated freight benchmarks before approving delivery costs
Atlas Chat · Grain purchasing brief
- Regional wheat price
- USDA Market News · Selected report · Match grade, market, date, and quote basis.
- Longer-term wheat benchmark
- World Bank Pink Sheet · Monthly · Compare the correct benchmark grade and unit.
- Sourcing origins
- FAOSTAT · Annual agricultural trade · Check reporting year and recorded trade direction.
- Grain freight
- USDA · Grain Transportation Report · Check mode and route before comparing with the quoted delivery cost.
Illustrative review of a wheat offer before a buyer asks for revised terms.
Use the right benchmark for each part of the deal.
Start with the grade, packaging, origin, and delivery terms. A market price is useful when you can explain what it measures.
Check a supplier’s price against a relevant market
Review a selected USDA Market News report for the same commodity and available grade or market. Keep the report date, quote basis, packaging, and unit next to the offer.
Compare longer-term commodity trends
Use monthly World Bank Pink Sheet series for published reference prices in covered crops, food inputs, fertilizer, or energy. Keep each series’ grade, location, and unit attached.
Find sourcing markets to research
Use annual FAOSTAT bilateral trade or national totals to identify established origins or destinations. Ask suppliers to confirm current supply, lead times, and terms.
Benchmark grain freight
Use USDA grain rail, barge, truck, and ocean indicators when the applicable mode and series are covered. Compare them with the transport line on the offer.
Plan produce and refrigerated freight
Review covered USDA refrigerated rates and equipment availability. Confirm pickup timing, temperature requirements, and a bookable quote with the carrier.
Give finance a reviewable cost comparison
Bring in authorized supplier quotes, purchase orders, freight estimates, and invoices. Compare the commodity price, freight, and charges separately and show which assumptions still need confirmation.
Review a purchase offer before you commit.
Enter the actual purchase terms
Add commodity, grade, packing, unit, origin, volume, and delivery terms. Attach the supplier offer or enter the fields your team can share.
Choose comparable reports
Select the USDA report, trade series, and benchmark that answer your question. Convert units explicitly and show unmatched grades, regions, or dates separately.
Confirm the offer with your team
Create a buying brief with cited market facts, known freight costs, and open quality or delivery questions. Have the buyer and operations lead verify the terms before approving.
Give purchasing, trading, and logistics access to the same evidence.
Atlas Verified AI uses the tools and company records your team is authorized to access. Connect supported email to bring supplier correspondence into the work.
Compare supplier offers against a market report and make a list of assumptions to confirm before issuing a purchase order.
Summarize reported trade flows and benchmark changes for the product. Share the reporting period and evidence with sales or management.
Compare the offer’s transport basis with relevant USDA freight series and ask the carrier to confirm cost, equipment, and pickup timing.
Prepare a buying brief with separate sections for comparable prices, freight assumptions, and terms to confirm. Cite the report and date behind each benchmark.
Separate current offers from historical market data.
An offer, a weekly report, a monthly price, and an annual trade total answer different questions.
Check product and freight definitions
A grain index, a reefer rate, and an ocean freight series have different units and coverage. Preserve those distinctions when explaining why two quotes differ.
Keep specification and certification evidence with the order
Use the market sources for context. Confirm the offered grade, certification, shipment details, and payable price in the applicable supplier and shipment records.
Data Sources and Coverage
The cadence below describes publisher releases. Check the latest available period in Atlas before using a figure.
Market News
Compare supplier offers with an appropriate reported market.
- Publisher — USDA Agricultural Marketing Service
- Coverage — Selected published commodity reports and supported series. Grade, packaging, location, and sales basis vary.
- Publisher cadence — Varies by report. Check the report date.
Agricultural Transportation and Grain Transportation Report
Check freight benchmarks and their specific mode, unit, and route.
- Publisher — USDA Agricultural Marketing Service
- Coverage — Selected reefer rates and availability, plus grain indicators for rail, barge, truck, and ocean modes.
- Publisher cadence — Grain Transportation Report weekly. Other series follow their publisher schedules.
FAOSTAT Agricultural Trade
Research historical origins and markets using FAO’s product and country definitions.
- Publisher — Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
- Coverage — Bilateral agriculture and food trade and national trade totals in the covered datasets.
- Publisher cadence — Annual trade observations. Check the latest published reference year.
Commodity Price Data (Pink Sheet)
Compare longer-term commodity price direction by benchmark and unit.
- Publisher — World Bank
- Coverage — Published benchmark prices for agriculture, fertilizers, energy, and other commodity groups.
- Publisher cadence — Monthly price series.
Frequently Asked Questions
Review a real commodity purchase with Atlas Verified.
Bring a commodity, grade, market, and a recent supplier offer. We’ll check which reports fit the purchase and work through the freight and delivery assumptions with you.