2 wholesale sweet corn price series from 2 markets in Japan have a forecast. The median series points to a rise over the coming weeks (+24.9% by the end of the forecast), against a typical 12-week error of 30%. Below: when sweet corn is usually cheapest and dearest in 1 country.
🇯🇵 Ota Market (Tokyo Metropolitan Central Wholesale Market), Japan
🇯🇵 Osaka City Central Wholesale Market (Main Market), Japan
Prices in each market’s currency and unit. Range: 80%. Typical error: median error at 12 weeks in the test on the series’ own history.
| Quote and market | Latest week | In 4 weeks | In 12 weeks | Change | Typical error |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sweet corn 🇯🇵 Ota Market (Tokyo Metropolitan Central Wholesale Market) | 280 JPY/kg | 234–445 | 245–602 | +49.8% | ±25% |
| Sweet corn 🇯🇵 Osaka City Central Wholesale Market (Main Market) | 373 JPY/kg | 200–478 | 220–585 | ±0.0% | ±35% |
Usual wholesale price in each month against the yearly average, by country.
| Country | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Cheapest | Dearest |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 🇯🇵 Japan9 series · 9 markets · 2024–2026 | +39 | +57 | +61 | +54 | +21 | −30 | −33 | −34 | −31 | −18 | −9 | −4 | August | March |
cheaper than the yearly average · dearer · figures in % · no quotes in that month (season or data gap). Monthly averages of each series against its yearly average, after removing the long-term trend such as inflation; median across series and markets of the country, years with at least 10 months of quotes.
The forecasts extend each series’ own seasonal pattern; they do not know about this year’s weather, harvests, policy or currency moves. Use the range, not only the central figure, and do not base trading, purchasing or credit decisions on them alone.
Of 2 sweet corn price series with a forecast, 1 point higher and 1 lower or flat by the end of the forecast; the median series points to a rise (+24.9%). The forecasts repeat what the season usually does and are recalculated daily (data of 13 Nov 2026).
In Japan, wholesale sweet corn prices are usually lowest in August (−34.1% against the yearly average) and highest in March (+60.9%), based on 9 price series from 9 markets, 2024–2026.
In tests on the last 52 weeks of each series, the typical 12-week error of the published sweet corn forecasts was 30%. Each series passed the test only because its errors were smaller than those of a “no change” forecast. Results of the archived forecasts are on the accuracy page.
From the wholesale markets and price services listed on each series, as published, in their own currencies and units. Husfarm does not adjust them except to compute weekly and monthly averages.
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Calculated from Husfarm price data; changes with every update. Data licensed under CC BY 4.0.
