February was about fundamentals: a large Supply & Demand expansion, a widget refresh that makes dashboards easier to present, and a calculation upgrade behind every VPI. More of the data you need to explain a market, and cleaner ways to show it.
What shipped:
- Refreshed widgets with a dedicated sidebar for filters and configuration. Slide it away for full-screen widgets that work in the platform and in your presentation slides. Live so far: Weather Maps, Crop Calendar, Herd Size, Historical FX, Retail Consumption, Company Milk Prices, Historical Milk Valorization, and all three Forecast widgets. Import & Export is next.
- VPI methodology upgrade. Ahead of Euronext’s European dairy futures launch, the EU VPI SMP & Butter were upgraded to EU Benchmark Regulation (BMR) standards, and the finetuned final calculation step (recommended by external benchmark administrator Compass FT) now applies across all VPI benchmarks. Your prices stay the same: backtested products showed 99.5%+ correlation between the old and new methods.
- Dashboard sharing fix: shared dashboards now appear correctly under the “Shared” header in your colleague’s sidebar.
- Copilot and Bring Your Own Data stayed open to all users until March 31.
Data added:
- 2,595 new price and data series across 4 releases.
- 1,406 Supply & Demand series covering ending stocks, consumption, and production, from USDA PSD and FAO Stat.
- 286 US prices from USDA MARS: vegetables, fruits, meat, food ingredients, and more.
- 33 partner prices: cocoa, shea nuts, HFCS, lecithin, starches.
- 870 Vesper Forecasts: meat, nuts, vegetables, fruits, grains, herbs, and more.
Partnerships and reports:
- New monthly Australian Red Meat report by Episode3, covering beef and lamb: export statistics, slaughter ratios, herd size, and processor margins.
