How to Calculate Grain Value
To calculate grain value, start with the price benchmark that applies to your grain, then…
How to Calculate Grain Value
To calculate grain value, start with the price benchmark that applies to your grain, then adjust for basis, quality, moisture, quantity, delivery point, freight, storage, and timing. In practice, the number most farmers or buyers use is not just a…
China Soybean Price Forecast
China’s soybean market is centered in the People’s Republic of China, the world’s dominant soybean importer and one of the most important destinations for globally traded oilseeds. When people look for a “China soybean price forecast,” they usually want to…
How to Convert Bushels to Tons
Converting bushels to tons is simple in principle but easy to get wrong in practice because a bushel is a measure of volume, while a ton is a measure of weight. The conversion depends on the crop and the standard…
China Corn Futures Market
China’s corn futures market is centered in mainland China and is primarily organized around the Dalian Commodity Exchange (DCE), the country’s main listed market for corn futures. It matters because China is one of the world’s largest corn producers and…
Grain Price Conversion Guide
Grain prices are quoted in different units, currencies, and market formats, so a “grain price conversion guide” is really a guide to making unlike prices comparable. In practice, that means converting between bushels, metric tons, short tons, kilograms, pounds, and…
China Corn Supply and Demand
China’s corn market is a domestic feed, industrial, and food grain market centered in the People’s Republic of China, where corn is grown mainly in the Northeast and North China Plain, consumed heavily by feed mills and processors, and priced…
Grain Price per Metric Ton
Grain price per metric ton is a useful way to compare wheat, corn, soybeans, rice, barley, oats, rye, sorghum, canola, rapeseed, and sunflower seed across countries, ports, and contracts. In practice, however, there is no single global grain price per…
China Corn Import Market
China’s corn import market is the business of buying maize from overseas suppliers for use inside mainland China, mainly for feed, processing, and stock management. It is a country-level import market, but in practice it connects inland feed demand, coastal…
Oat Price per Bushel
The oat price per bushel usually refers to one of two different markets: the exchange-traded futures price or the local cash price offered by an elevator, cooperative, feed mill, or grain buyer. Those two prices are related, but they are…
China Corn Export Market
China’s corn export market is the physical and commercial system through which corn produced in China may be sold abroad, priced for shipment, and managed against domestic and international price risk. In practice, this is a specialized market rather than…