Grain & oilseeds intelligence

Kpler provides detailed coverage of global grain and oilseed trade flows, helping users track how key agricultural commodities move between major producing regions and global demand centers. Coverage spans major grains such as corn, wheat, barley, sorghum, oats, rye, millet and dried distillers grains (DDGs), alongside a broad range of oilseeds including soybeans, rapeseed (canola), sunflowerseed, cottonseed, peanuts, palm kernel, copra, linseed and lupin.

The platform also tracks processed oilseed products and feed ingredients, including soybean meal, sunflowerseed meal, rapeseed meal, cottonseed meal, palm kernel meal, peanut meal, soy flour and hulls. This allows market participants to analyze both raw agricultural commodities and downstream products moving through global food and feed supply chains.

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Kpler tracks physical cargo movements across the global agricultural trade, providing visibility into shipments between exporting countries and importing markets. Users can monitor grain and oilseed flows by origin, destination, buyer and installation, helping them understand how agricultural supply moves through global trade networks.

This cargo intelligence helps traders, analysts and agribusiness companies identify shifts in export competitiveness, seasonal trade patterns and changing demand dynamics across the global grain and oilseed markets.

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Kpler provides granular product-level coverage across major grain markets, allowing users to analyze trade flows by crop type and quality specifications.

Examples include:

• Corn varieties such as yellow corn, white corn and feed corn
  
  
• Wheat categories including durum, hard wheat (hard red spring, hard red winter, hard white wheat) and soft wheat (soft red winter and soft white wheat)
  
  
• Barley types including feed barley and malting barley
  
  

This level of classification helps market participants understand how specific grain qualities and grades move between producing regions and end-use markets such as feed, milling and malting industries.

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Kpler offers detailed coverage across the entire oilseed value chain, enabling users to track how oilseeds and their derivative products move through global agricultural supply chains.

By monitoring shipments of commodities such as soybeans, rapeseed, sunflowerseed and palm kernel, alongside processed products like soybean meal and vegetable oil feedstocks, users can better understand crush demand, feed market dynamics and global oilseed trade patterns.

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Kpler’s freight analytics provide visibility into how the global dry bulk fleet supports agricultural trade. Users can track vessel movements by location, ownership, vessel status and deadweight, allowing them to see how ships are deployed across major grain export corridors.

By monitoring whether vessels are laden, ballast, idle or active, customers can evaluate freight capacity, detect tightening or loosening shipping conditions, and anticipate changes in vessel availability.

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Kpler provides real-time visibility into vessel congestion and terminal activity at key grain export and import hubs worldwide. Users can track vessel queues, analyze waiting times, and monitor congestion trends that may disrupt cargo loading schedules or increase freight costs.

This operational visibility helps traders and logistics teams anticipate delays, optimize voyage planning and better understand how port infrastructure and shipping bottlenecks influence global grain flows.

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Kpler offers key freight performance indicators including ton-mile demand and vessel speed analytics, which help users evaluate shipping market conditions.

By tracking changes in average vessel speeds alongside ton-mile demand, market participants can assess shifts in shipping demand, trade distances and fleet efficiency across global grain and oilseed routes. These metrics can be analyzed by vessel type and cargo state (laden or ballast) to provide deeper insight into freight market dynamics.

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