grain markets
Wheat trading floors
Grain markets are the trading systems where cereal crops—wheat, corn, rice, barley, oats—are bought and sold.
These include physical marketplaces where farmers sell harvests and commodity exchanges where futures contracts set prices months ahead.
Drought forecasts sent grain markets into turmoil.
The term often appears in financial news discussing food prices and agricultural economics.
- hedgingNoncommittal maneuvering
- commodity exchangeMarket for trading raw goods
- farmerOne who cultivates land
- cash cropProduce grown for sale
- bushelDry volume unit
corn · futures contract · futures trading · harvest · harvest season · seed · arbitrage · CBOT · trading floor · trade embargoes · subsidy programs · spot price · carry trade · wheat · price volatility · global demand · supply chain · bulk shipping
- grain farmingwheat, wheat field, wheat fields, wheat farming, corn
- farm economicsfarm economy, farm income, farm loans, farm credit, farm management
- Midwest Economycorn farming, wheat farming, farm equipment, John Deere, dairy farming
- farmingfarm, farms, farmer, farmers, crop
- agribusinessagribusiness, farm, farms, corporate farms, factory farming
- ancient marketsagora, forum, bazaar, souk, emporium
grain marketslivestock markets
Animal trading venues
livestock auctions · cattle markets · meat markets · fish markets · seafood markets
grain marketsstock markets
Securities trading venues
bond markets · currency markets · financial markets · energy markets · real estate markets
grain marketscentral planning
Government directs all production
command economy · rationing systems · price controls · subsistence farming · barter systems