Soybean Price and Factor Data from 1962 to 2018

Soybean-price-factor-data-1962-2018 is a compilation of daily soybean prices and influencing factors. The data includes daily temperatures from major U.S. growing areas and annual country-level production and area counts, with 2018 figures being estimates. Prices are sourced from CME futures and are not adjusted for inflation.

Use Cases

• Forecasting soybean price trends based on daily temperature data from major U.S. growing areas.
• Analyzing the relationship between annual country-level production estimates and commodity futures prices.
• Building time-series models for agricultural commodities using unadjusted CME futures price data.

Strengths

• Covers a long temporal range from 1962 to 2018.
• Includes multiple data types: daily prices, daily temperatures, and annual production/area statistics.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

Data assembled from sources including Quandl for CME futures and likely USDA or similar for production data.

Collection Method

Compiled from multiple public sources, with raw data collection scripts referenced on GitHub.

Time Range

1962-2018

Geography

Primarily United States (for temperature data) and global country-level data for production and area.