Overview
Introduction
The agricultural industry (soft commodities/softs) are commodities such as coffee, cocoa, sugar, corn, wheat, soybean, fruit and livestock. The term generally refers to commodities that are grown, rather than mined. Soft commodities are sometimes referred to as tropical commodities or food and fiber commodities.
Soft Commodity Categories
The OECD categorises agriculture using the following category and sub-category:
- Grains/Cereals
- Wheat
- Maize/Corn
- Other coarse grains
- Rice
- Dry grains
- Oil Seeds
- Soybean
- Other oil seeds
- Protein meals
- Vegetable oils
- Sugar
- Meats
- Eggs
- Dairy
- Biofuel
- Fisheries
- Fish
- Fish from capture
- Fish from aquaculture
- Fish meal
- Fish oil
- Cotton
- Roots and tubers
- Pulses