Chicago Wheat (SRW)
Wheat is a cereal grain, originally from the Levant region of what is known today as the Middle east, but now cultivated worldwide. In 2013, world production of wheat was 713 million tons, making it the third most-produced cereal after maize (corn) and rice. SRW (Soft Red Winter) wheat is a low-protein wheat used for cakes, pie crusts, biscuits, and muffins. Cake flour, pastry flour, and some self-rising flours with baking powder and salt added, for example, are made from soft red winter wheat.
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Kansas City Wheat (HRW)
Hard Red Winter wheat, is a brownish, mellow high-protein wheat used for bread, hard baked goods and as an adjunct in other flours to increase protein in pastry flour for pie crusts. Some brands of unbleached all-purpose flours are commonly made from hard red winter wheat alone. It is primarily traded on the Kansas City Board of Trade
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Minneapolis Wheat (HRS)
Hard Red Spring wheat is a brownish, high-protein wheat used for bread and hard baked goods. Bread Flour and high-gluten flours are commonly made from hard red spring wheat. It is primarily traded at the Minneapolis Grain Exchange.
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Corn
Corn, sometimes referred to as 'yellow gold' because of its myriad of uses that drive its high demand, some of which include livestock feed, ethanol, edible oil and other foods; but it is also used to manufacture plastics, solvents and other industrial and household products. It is actively traded by corn merchandisers, producers, food processors, livestock operations, importers and others who are related to the purchase or sale of corn, in order to hedge price risks
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Oats
Oats are consumed by humans in the form of oatmeal and rolled oats but are primarily used as a feed for livestock. Oat production has been steadily declining however as a result of falling population numbers in horses. Oat production peaked in 1945 when a record 1.5 billion bushels were produced utilizing 42 million acres.
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Soybeans
Soybeans are an oilseed legume originally from East Asia that has been used for centuries as a protein source both for humans and animals. It's primary uses include livestock feed, edible oil and other foods; but is is also used to manufacture plastics, solvents and other industrial products. Soybeans are also used to make soybean oil and soybean meal.
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Soybean Oil
Soybean oil is a vegetable oil extracted from the seeds of the soybean. It is one of the most widely consumed cooking oil. Used also as a drying oil, processed soybean oil is used as a base for printing inks and oil paints.
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Soybean Meal
Soybean Meal refers to a by product of soybeans obtained by grinding the flakes left over from the removal of the oil contained in soybeans with a solvent. Soybean Meal is a high-quality filler food containing roughly 50% protein that is used primarily for feeding livestock such as pigs, chicken, cattle, horses, sheep and fish.
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Rough Rice
Rice is the primary food for much of the world’s population and an important ingredient in many processed foods and beverages. The ‘rough’ part of the name stems from the fact that the grains have not had the outer hull and bran layers removed from them. The USDA has stated that in order for rice to be considered ‘rough’, it must possess at least 50% broken or intact un-hulled rice seeds. Only a small fraction of rice produced is free for export, and most is consumed by the countries where it is produced.
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