Grain market:
wheat, barley, corn, and soybeans on the world's leading B2B

trading platforms in the EU

09/06/2025

     The grain market is a complex, dynamic system. Cereals occupy half of the arable land of the world and production of cereals in 2021 amounted to 2 796 million tons, while the volume of world trade in the 2021-2022 season of 484 million tons of grain has a steady tendency to increase. The most important crops are wheat and corn.
     The European Union is on the list of main grain exporters and importers with gross production of 297.5 million tons, which accounts for about 20% of the world’s production of grains and is a net exporter of about 15% of this production. Exported grains are mostly wheat and barley, while imports consist mainly of corn.