Price Alerts! Thresholds

Price Alerts are a tool that Agronometrics makes available to its customers and users to the free trial. The alerts indicate that the average daily price of a commodity has risen or fallen by more than a specific threshold calculated to create approximately 12 reports a year.

To take into account the changes in the volatility of the Commodities we work with, we periodically adjust the thresholds so that they better represent our present reality. The below limits are calculated using the daily prices of each commodity from 02 Jan 2017 through 20 Mar 2020.

These thresholds were updated in the system on the 23 March 2020.

Price Alert! Thresholds by Commodity (Non-Organic)

Fruit	Measure	Limit Low	Limit High
APPLES	Price Per Package	-$0.7926	$0.8500
ASPARAGUS	Price Per Kilo	-$0.6018	$0.6061
AVOCADOS	Price Per Package	-$2.5772	$2.6945
BLACKBERRIES	Price Per Package	-$1.6179	$1.6485
BLUEBERRIES	Price Per Kilo	-$0.7773	$0.8042
CHERRIES	Price Per Kilo	-$0.3928	$0.4458
CLEMENTINES	Price Per Kilo	-$0.1112	$0.1177
GRAPEFRUITS	Price Per Package	-$0.3951	$0.4544
GRAPES	Price Per Kilo	-$0.1891	$0.1957
KIWIFRUIT	Price Per Package	-$0.6015	$0.6565
LEMONS	Price Per Kilo	-$0.0684	$0.0716
LIMES	Price Per Package	-$2.0319	$2.0838
MANGOES	Price Per Package	-$0.4656	$0.4802
NECTARINES	Price Per Kilo	-$0.0958	$0.1019
ORANGES	Price Per Kilo	-$0.0461	$0.0483
PEACHES	Price Per Kilo	-$0.0818	$0.0878
PEARS	Price Per Kilo	-$0.0563	$0.0597
PLUMS	Price Per Kilo	-$0.0907	$0.0985
RASPBERRIES	Price Per Package	-$0.9716	$1.0241
STRAWBERRIES	Price Per Package	-$1.8808	$1.9165

To learn more about Price Alerts! and how we made our calculations see our article on the subject Price Alerts! are here for all.

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