Current
Today, Helios blends two complementary streams: (1) official government price programs (e.g., federal agriculture price bulletins) that publish standardized benchmark prices and historical series, and (2) a specialist cash-price provider with dense local coverage, giving us timely views of basis moves across growing regions and delivery points. We harmonize these into a single schema—aligning commodity specs, grades, and delivery terms; normalizing currencies and units; and mapping each print to geography and seasonality—so you can compare like-for-like across markets and immediately tie prices to the climate-risk signals in the platform.
Future State
Over the coming months, we’re expanding coverage with 60+ additional price programs drawn from a broad mix of source types—national and provincial agriculture ministries (official wholesale/export/farmgate bulletins), commodity boards and market observatories (weekly panels and outlooks), market-information systems and central wholesale markets (daily spot sheets), producer co-ops and associations (farmgate surveys), international organizations and statistical agencies (harmonized series), customs/trade datasets (export/import reference prices), and independent market-intelligence publishers (regional cash quotes).
Think of this as adding many parallel price series, each preserved as its own time series with its own methodology and cadence; our job is to standardize the metadata and delivery so you can forecast Wholesale, Export, and Farmgate prices per source, compare them side-by-side, and choose the series that best fits your trading or procurement workflow—without chasing dozens of disparate sites.