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Here’s how we can help
Black Silo helps grain and oilseed trading, origination, procurement and risk teams follow physical markets, use current and historical cash price data, onboard junior staff faster and manage commodity price exposure.
Black Silo Platform
Everything your desk needs in one place.
Following the market often means moving between reports, price charts, balance sheets and news. The Black Silo Platform brings physical prices, market analysis and supply-and-demand fundamentals into one connected view, helping teams see what is changing, where origins are gaining or losing competitiveness and what may be driving the move. With Fryers Reports and market news alongside interactive FOB price and balance-sheet data, teams can move from spotting a change to understanding what sits behind it .
Best for: Trading, origination, procurement and risk teams that need a consolidated view of physical grain and oilseed markets.
Fryer’s Reports
The physical market, interpreted every day.
An accurate view of the physical market depends on reliable cash prices and the judgement to interpret them alongside futures, crop developments and regional flows. Fryers Reports have brought the two together since 2001 in short, opinionated reports, usually around one page per commodity. Morning reports cover global wheat, feed grains, oilseeds, protein meals and vegetable oils, followed by dedicated EU–Black Sea reporting in the evening. Weekly and post-USDA recaps provide wider context, while a specialist bi-weekly Durum Report is available from Spiga Dorata.
Best for: Daily trading, origination, procurement and risk decisions.
Fryer’s Trading Academy
Train junior staff without taking senior traders away from the desk.
Junior traders often enter the desk knowing only one part of the market. These gaps can lead to operational mistakes and weaker decisions around pricing, hedging and financial exposure. Fryers Trading Academy brings crops, physical prices, basis, futures and hedging together in a structured programme for junior traders and commercial analysts. It helps participants follow desk conversations, understand the consequences of their decisions and contribute more effectively to trading and risk management. For companies, the flexible format provides a consistent way to onboard new hires and reduces reliance on informal desk training. Live sessions with Dr Rory Deverell every two weeks connect the material to current market questions.
Best for: Companies onboarding traders and commercial analysts.
Black Silo Price API
Daily cash prices with 20+ years of historical data, ready for your workflow.
Physical-price data varies not only in quality and coverage, but also in how easily it can be integrated into existing models, dashboards and internal systems. Black Silo provides current and historical grain and oilseed cash price data through its API and structured datasets. Updated daily, each price record specifies the commodity, origin, quality, incoterm, currency, location and reference contract. The data can be used in pricing and basis models, trading dashboards, historical analysis, backtesting, AI models and internal risk systems.
Best for: Quant, data and commercial teams that need physical price data for models, analytics, pricing or risk workflows.
Risk Management Consulting
Get a second view before price exposure becomes a margin problem.
It is not always clear whether an existing hedging approach still reflects the company’s physical exposure and current market conditions. Black Silo helps food, feed and energy companies identify their commodity price exposure, build a risk-management plan or review an existing approach. Black Silo holds no positions and brokers no physical or financial products.
Best for: Companies building a risk-management plan or reviewing an existing one.
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Methodology
Black Silo combines public and government data with its own surveys, field research and direct conversations with market makers across global grain and oilseed markets. We cross-check these sources and apply 20+ years of trading and risk-management experience to explain what is changing and why it matters.
See whether we cover your market
Global coverage of physical grain and oilseed markets, with dedicated EU–Black Sea reporting
Grains
- Wheat
- Durum
- Barley
- Corn
Oilseeds
- Rapeseed and canola complex
- Sunflower complex
- Soybeans complex
Find the right solution for your team
See how Black Silo helps different roles understand physical markets, make better-informed commercial decisions and manage commodity price exposure.
Make better decisions across grain and oilseed markets
Use daily market reports, physical price data, practical training and commodity risk support to trade, buy and manage exposure with greater confidence.
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