About Global-Grains

Our Mission

To help you tell the story that will drive decision making for you and your business, in the face of fast-moving narratives, emotions and pressure.

Our Products

Global Grains is designed to be used by you, to add a wow factor to your presentations and add value to your decision-making. We provide contextualised visualisations of the best publicly accessible data which is often hidden behind a paywall.

Commodity markets can of course be volatile, with the excitement of short-term news cycles driving price action. Consultants and brokers may overwhelm you with reactionary and emotional perspectives that are not aligned with you and your business long-term interests.

Global Grains provides an overview from data, looking across longer term trends and patterns at the bigger picture. We offer free to access tools and easily understandable visualisations to help cut through the media hype and broker narratives. We use the best publicly available data so that you can build the right story for you and your audience.

This is the go-to resource for you to use and share, to aid your communication and allow you to clearly articulate ideas, recommendations and decisions for the benefit of your business.

Who We Are

Between us, we have grown, traded, and made food, feed and ethanol from grains. We are passionate both about agriculture and the role it plays in our economy, as well as risk management and driving better decision making for you and your business.

Our Source Data

Only a few people can look at the hundreds of rows and columns of numbers in any global grains report and instinctively understand what the data is saying, let alone make the best decisions based on it. Fortunately, data science techniques allow us to simplify vast quantities of data into visualisation tools which our brains can process in very different ways.

We use the global crop data provided by the USDA (U.S. Department of Agriculture) which is widely considered to be a uniquely robust and trusted dataset and, frankly, it’s the data that everyone is using.

The USDA collects and publishes this data freely, with the intent of producing “the most objective and accurate assessment of global agricultural production and the conditions affecting food security around the world”.