Whois & Analysis for world-grain.com

A commodity market is a market that trades in primary economic sector rather than manufactured products.

Soft commodities are agricultural products such as wheat, coffee, cocoa and sugar.

Hard commodities are mined, such as gold and oil.

Investors access about 50 major commodity markets worldwide with purely financial transactions increasingly outnumbering physical trades in which goods are delivered.

Futures contracts are the oldest way of investing in commodities.

Futures are secured by physical assets.

Commodity markets can include physical trading and derivatives trading using spot prices, forwards, futures, and options on futures.

Farmers have used a simple form of derivative trading in the commodity market for centuries for price risk management.

Flour is a powder made by grinding raw grains or roots and used to make many different foods.

Cereal flour is the main ingredient of bread, which is a staple food for many cultures, making the availability of adequate supplies of flour a major economic and political issue at various times throughout history.

Wheat flour is one of the most important ingredients in Oceanic, European, South American, North American, Middle Eastern, North Indian and North African cultures, and is the defining ingredient in their styles of breads and pastries.

Grains are small, hard, dry seeds, with or without attached hulls or fruit layers, harvested for human or animal consumption.

Agronomists also call the plants producing such seeds "grain crops".

The two main types of commercial grain crops are cereals such as wheat and rye, and legumes such as beans and soybeans.

Because of the ubiquity of grain as a food source, the term grain is often used to describe something small and with volume or mass similar to an individual grain seed.

A mill is a device that breaks solid materials into smaller pieces by grinding, crushing, or cutting.

Such comminution is an important unit operation in many processes.

There are many different types of mills and many types of materials processed in them.

Historically mills were powered by hand (e.g., via a hand crank), working animal (e.g., horse mill), wind (windmill) or water (watermill).

Today they are usually powered by electricity.

Industry is the production of goods or related services within an economy.

The major source of revenue of a group or company is the indicator of its relevant industry.

When a large group has multiple sources of revenue generation, it is considered to be working in different industries.

Manufacturing industry became a key sector of production and labour in European and North American countries during the Industrial Revolution, upsetting previous mercantile and feudal economies.

This came through many successive rapid advances in technology, such as the production of steel and coal.