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Grains are among the most important staple foods worldwide and form the basis of many food and feed supply chains. The key futures contracts are traded on international exchanges, offering producers and traders an efficient way to hedge price risks.

Wheat is one of the most traded agricultural products in the world and serves as a basis for price hedging for many commercial market participants.
Exchanges & platforms:

MATIF / Euronext Paris – Milling Wheat (Euronext Derivatives, Paris)
CME Group / Chicago – Soft Red Winter Wheat (Globex, Chicago)
KCBT / Kansas City – Hard Red Winter Wheat (via CME Globex, Kansas City)
MGEX / Minneapolis – Hard Red Spring Wheat (via CME Globex, Minneapolis)

Corn is a key raw material for animal feed, industrial processing, and export markets. It belongs to the grain group and is one of the most traded agricultural futures worldwide.
Exchanges & trading platforms:

  • CME Group / Chicago (CBOT) – Corn futures, traded via CME Globex (Chicago, USA)
    Euronext / MATIF Paris – Corn futures, traded via Euronext Derivatives (Paris, France)

While the CME corn contract is the leading global benchmark, the MATIF contract offers an important regional hedging opportunity for European market participants.

Oilseeds

Oilseeds such as soybeans and rapeseed are essential raw materials for the oil and feed industries. They play a central role in the global supply of edible oils and protein products. Trading mainly takes place on specialized futures exchanges that focus on regional and global markets.

Rapeseed

Rapeseed is an important European oilseed with a high proportion of edible and industrial vegetable oil. Hedging mainly takes place on the European stock exchange.
Exchanges & trading platforms:

Euronext / MATIF Paris – Rapeseed Futures, traded via Euronext Derivatives (Paris, France)

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Soybeans

Soybeans are one of the most important oilseeds worldwide and are mainly processed for oil extraction and as animal feed.
Exchanges & trading platforms:

  • CME Group / Chicago – Soybean Futures, traded via CME Globex (Chicago, USA)

Soybean oil

Soybean oil is used as cooking oil and an industrial raw material and is a key contract for hedging oil prices in oilseed processing.
Exchanges & trading platforms:

  • CME Group / Chicago – Soybean Oil Futures, traded via CME Globex (Chicago, USA)

Soybean meal

Soybean meal is an important source of protein in animal feed. Price hedging is primarily carried out in the US via futures.
Exchanges & trading platforms:

  • CME Group / Chicago – Soybean meal futures, traded via CME Globex (Chicago, USA)