Key Takeaways
- Grão Direto, Latin America’s leading digital grain trading platform, and Barchart, a global commodity data and analytics provider, have announced a strategic partnership to globally redistribute proprietary Brazilian grain market data from Grainsights — Grão Direto’s market intelligence platform — through Barchart’s cmdtyView platform and API distribution network.
- The datasets being redistributed include more than 120 local price assessments covering multiple producing regions across Brazil’s interior, regional physical prices for soybeans and corn, and proprietary export benchmark indices including the FOB Santos Soybean Index and FOB Rio Grande Soybean Index, both developed in accordance with IOSCO benchmark principles.
- Unlike survey-based market databases, Grainsights derives its data from primary transaction signals — thousands of daily price consultations and commercial interactions on the Grão Direto platform — capturing real-time price formation dynamics and market liquidity in Brazil’s physical grain market.
- International traders, analysts, hedge funds, and financial institutions will gain access to structured Brazilian grain price references within cmdtyView or via API, enabling more precise analysis of regional arbitrage opportunities, export competitiveness, and basis relationships across Brazil’s producing regions.
- Brazil is one of the world’s largest producers and exporters of soybeans and corn, yet local physical price information has historically been fragmented across warehouses, trading companies, and regional intermediaries; the partnership aims to reduce this information asymmetry for global market participants.
Grão Direto and Barchart Strike Data Distribution Partnership for Brazilian Grain Markets
Grão Direto, Latin America’s leading digital grain trading platform, and Barchart, a global provider of data, intelligence, and trading solutions for commodity and financial markets, announced a strategic partnership to globally redistribute proprietary data from Grainsights, Grão Direto’s market intelligence platform. Price datasets and price curves derived from thousands of daily interactions, price consultations, and transactions on the Grão Direto platform will be made available through cmdtyView, Barchart’s trading and analytics platform for global commodity markets. Barchart will also act as a distribution partner for API licensing as part of its global grain pricing offering.
“This partnership expands Barchart’s coverage of the Brazilian agricultural market — one of the most relevant regions for global soybean and corn trade — and reinforces our commitment to delivering increasingly comprehensive and relevant data to participants in the global commodities markets,” said Fernando Berardo, Head of Commodities — Latin America at Barchart.
120+ Regional Price Assessments and IOSCO-Compliant Export Benchmarks Now Available Globally
The datasets being redistributed through the partnership include regional physical prices for Brazil’s soybean and corn markets, more than 120 local price assessments covering multiple producing regions across the country’s interior, and proprietary export benchmark indices developed to IOSCO benchmark principles: the FOB Santos Soybean Index and the FOB Rio Grande Soybean Index. Barchart clients will be able to access these references directly within cmdtyView or via API, enabling more detailed analysis of regional price spreads, arbitrage opportunities between physical and futures markets, and export competitiveness from Brazil’s key shipping corridors.
International agricultural commodity markets have historically faced challenges accessing standardized, timely, and reliable data on Brazil’s physical grain market. Despite Brazil being one of the world’s largest soybean and corn exporters, local price information has remained fragmented across producing regions, warehouses, trading companies, and commercial intermediaries. The Grão Direto–Barchart partnership is designed to reduce this information asymmetry by providing structured, recurring price data across Brazil’s main producing regions to a global audience of traders, analysts, financial institutions, and agribusiness companies.
Grão Direto’s Transaction-Derived Data Fills a Gap in Global Commodity Intelligence
A key differentiator of the Grainsights dataset is its reliance on primary transaction data rather than declarative reporting or survey-based estimates. Price discovery in Brazil involves multiple variables including port premiums, logistics costs, regional basis levels, and local liquidity conditions. By capturing real signals from thousands of daily commercial interactions on the Grão Direto platform, Grainsights provides a more granular view of how these factors translate into actual market prices. Through Barchart’s redistribution network, this data now enters the global market intelligence ecosystem used by international traders, consulting firms, hedge funds, and asset managers — supporting more informed commercial, logistics, and hedging decisions.
“By expanding access to this information, Grainsights strengthens its position as a trusted source of grain market data in Brazil, contributing to greater transparency across the sector and enabling more efficient trading decisions throughout the agricultural value chain,” said Frederico Marques, CTO of Grão Direto.
