grain trade
Wheat market business
The grain trade is the commercial buying and selling of cereal crops—wheat, corn, rice, barley, and similar staples.
It encompasses local transactions between farmers and millers as well as the vast international commodity markets that move millions of tons across oceans.
The grain trade has shaped geopolitics since ancient times.
A grain trader operates in this market.
- milletSmall-seeded food crop
- barleyGrain for malt
- oatsCereal grain for porridge
- wheatCereal crop for flour
- granaryBuilding for storing cereals
freight · caravans · corn · silo · charterer · global supply chain · famine · import tariffs · rye · hedging · shipping lanes · barge · customs clearance · arbitrage · spot market · warehouse · commodity · storage
- food tradealmonds, farm produce, walnuts, fresh produce, olive oil
- Indigenous Tradebartering, gift economy, reciprocity, marketplace, cacao beans
- grain farmingwheat, wheat field, wheat fields, wheat farming, corn
- Ancient MesopotamiaBabylon, Assyria, cuneiform, Nineveh, Sumer
- medieval economyfiefs, manors, serfs, vassals, lords
- trade historycommerce, merchant, traders, colonial economy, trader
commodity type
grain tradelivestock trade
Commerce in farm animals
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