Release Date: April 30, 2026
Dataset Type: Commodity Price Network, Cash
Coverage: 60 Brazilian Locations, Export Benchmarks
Availability: Screen Display, API, SFTP, AWS S3

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About the Dataset

This release introduces a powerful new lens on Brazil’s physical grain markets, which are among the most important supply centers in global agriculture. Grão Direto adds a critical geographic and liquidity dimension, bringing Brazil’s internal price formation directly into your workflows. This expanded local price information provides insights into grain and oilseed production regions, warehouses, trading companies, and commercial intermediaries, bringing transparency to pricing that has historically been fragmented. 

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Details

• Asset Class: Cash
• Commodity Price Network: Grão Direto, Brazil
• Frequency: End-of-Day
• Historical Data: 2023
• Delivery Format: Screen Display (cmdtyView, Excel), SFTP (CSV), AWS S3 Cloud File Service (CSV)
• Methodology: Aggregated from millions of trades across Grão Direto’s marketplace
• Dimensions: Location, indices
• Data Quality: Grão Directo indices are developed in accordance with the IOSCO Principles for Financial Benchmarks, an internationally recognized standard that guides data integrity among administrators.

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Dataset Components

Dataset Coverage

Search the current Grão Direto Brazilian cash grain price coverage using Barchart’s Data Explorer

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Market Coverage

• Regional Cash Prices: Brazil’s physical soybean and corn markets, multiple producing regions across the geographic interior. 
• Benchmark Indices: FOB (Free On Board) Santos Soybean Index; FOB Rio Grande Soybean Index.

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Use Case

From physical traders to quant teams, this dataset enables market participants to benchmark regional pricing, uncover arbitrage and basis opportunities, and integrate transaction-backed data directly into trading and modeling workflows. This equips analysts with deeper visibility into supply flows and export dynamics. It also helps you align physical and derivatives market insights.

• Physical Traders: Benchmark regional pricing and optimize execution
• Futures & Options Traders: Identify arbitrage and basis opportunities
• Quant & Data Teams: Integrate real-world transaction data into models
• Market Analysts: Monitor supply flows and export dynamics

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How to Access

Grão Direto data is now available through:

• cmdtyView: Market Intelligence with AI analysis, visualization, mult-asset analytics
• Digital Information Board: Always-on delayed quotes and charts displayed with relevant news in English or Portuguese
• Market Replay API: Application Programming Interface to access Barchart’s historical database.
• OnDemand API: Done-for-you market data APIs.
• Market Replay Enterprise: Bulk file service via SFTP/S3, delivered enterprise-wide.

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Access Grão Direto data today through your existing Barchart platform or integration. Contact your Barchart representative to learn more, request access via cmdtyView, review sample data, or schedule a working session to integrate into your workflows

To access, contact Barchart’s data team to schedule a consultation