bringing focus to

agricultural market

news and price

reporting

"The only constant, is change"

 

The world's agriculture markets are changing at an unprecedented pace, driven by population growth, climate change, higher calorie and protein diets and more accessible international trade and transportation.

Farms have become sophisticated businesses, using advanced data sources to optimise their operations. The feed and food industries are in need of additional risk management solutions to hedge against increasing feedstock price volatility.

 

Census has been founded to provide the global agri industry with market intelligence and pricing data to power the next generation of commercial contracts and derivative instruments.

We provide physical price indices for key locations, that can be used as a reference for physical spot or term contracts, and to settle associated derivative contracts to better manage risk.

CENSUS
Latin: assessment, valuation from censere, to assess

The Team

Andrew Goodwin

Andrew is a co-founder and director of the company, who has joint responsibility for the strategic direction of the company. Prior to joining Census, Andrew sat on the executive committee at S&P Global Platts and was the business manager responsible for its metals, agriculture, petrochemical and dry bulk shipping coverage.

He has spent his working life in the commodity markets, helping to establish new pricing benchmarks in agriculture and metals. He has lived and worked in China, the US and Europe.

Tim Worledge

Tim is a co-founder and director of the company, who has joint responsibility for the strategic direction of the company. A former director at S&P Global Platts, Tim led the agriculture reporting team that was instrumental in the development of the Black Sea swaps market and has been at the forefront of price reporting for 10 years. He was also responsible for Platts’ benchmark biofuels assessments, including global ethanol benchmarks. Before moving into agriculture, Tim was an oil market pricing expert focusing on the European refined product markets.

Reese Ewing

Reese is based in Sao Paulo, Brazil where he has built his understanding of the South American commodities and logistics markets over the past twenty years and writes for AgriCensus about the soy bean market in particular.

Having led a small team specialized in raw materials in Brazil for Reuters News for most of that period, he focused on grains and oilseeds, biofuels, renewable energy and the shipping markets. In 2016, he enhanced his research and financial modeling abilities in the local commodities and energy markets by completing a two-year MBA program at the Esalq campus of the University of São Paulo.

He works for us as an independent freelance consultant.

John McGarrity

John covers the biofuels markets and specialises in EU climate and energy policy, renewable energy and fuels, and environmental politics related to the use of biofuels in transport. He has formerly worked for Platts, Reuters, Point Carbon and chinadialogue covering a wide range of commodities and markets.

Juan Pedro Tomas

Based in Buenos Aires, Juan Pedro covers key agricultural commodities and biofuels in Argentina and neighbouring South American countries.

He has previously worked for Latin Trade, Business News Americas and Telecompaper covering a wide range of markets including commodities, logistics, infrastructure and telecommunications. He has also worked for a number of political risk consultancy firms covering political risks in South American markets. He works for us as an independent freelance consultant.

Masha Belikova

Masha works out of the Ukraine office where she is an integral part of the editorial team, specialising in the corn and wheat markets and leading our Ukraine-based team. Prior to AgriCensus, Masha worked at the Ukrainian trade publisher ISM covering the global agriculture markets.

Census market news

and prices help agri

commodities

move efficiently from

farm to fork

WHAT IS A
PRICE REPORTING
AGENCY (PRA)?
Independent
PRAs are subscription-based information businesses that have no vested interest in counterparty, price or traded volume. We are independently funded and owned.
Focussed
PRAs operate in the space between counterparties and their only obligation is to provide an impartial price. We do not broke, trade or consult.
Census
PRAs survey the full spectrum of traders/buyers and brokers to capture the best price points to ensure robust assessments
Compliant
PRAs must pass stringent compliance criteria to receive a regulatory stamp of approval