Margin Intelligence
Data: current estimates
Price Spread Tracker
Track the spread between UCDA farmgate prices, FOB export prices, and ICE London robusta futures. Understand your margins at a glance.
📈 Price Comparison Over Time
Current Prices
Farmgate
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FOB Export
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ICE Futures
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FOB−ICE Diff
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Farmgate → FOB Spread
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of farmgate price
Est. Margin / 60kg Bag
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Est. Margin / MT
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This spread represents the margin available to cover milling, transport, handling, and exporter profit between the farmgate purchase and FOB sale price.
📖 Understanding the Spread
Farmgate Price
What cooperatives and middlemen pay farmers at the local buying station. Sourced from UCDA weekly market reports.
FOB Export Price
Free On Board price at Mombasa. Estimated from UCDA export data plus standard processing, transport, and handling costs (~35–45 US cents/kg above farmgate).
ICE Futures (London)
The global benchmark for robusta coffee. Uganda's differential (discount to ICE) typically runs 15–25% for standard grades. Track the gap to time your sales.
What the spread tells you: A wide farmgate-to-FOB spread means strong exporter margins. A narrow spread means tight margins, common during harvest peaks when competition for cherries drives up local prices. The FOB-to-ICE gap shows Uganda's competitiveness vs. other origins (Vietnam, Brazil, Indonesia).
Data source: UCDA, ICO composite indicators, ICE Futures Europe (approximate). Futures data is end-of-day settlement with 1-day lag. Farmgate prices updated weekly. For exact real-time futures, subscribe to a market data vendor.