Barchart Announces New Historical Data API for Physical Grain Prices and Local Grain Bids

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Aug 14, 2018, 09:00 ET

CHICAGO, Aug. 14, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Barchart, a leading provider of market data and technology, is pleased to announce the release of our intraday and historical API for cash grain bids from over 3,500 North American grain buying facilities. With this innovative new data product, Barchart now makes it easy to access our best-in-class historical grain prices over Web Services - powering use cases for Grain Buyers, Hedge Funds, Trading Firms and other users of Alternative Data.

This new product covers local grain prices historically back to 2008 and contains intraday records which are updated on price change events. In addition to this innovative approach to physical commodity prices, Barchart provides users with rich metadata from each grain buying site allowing for deep analysis and fast integrations.

"Whether users need intraday, end-of-day or historical physical grain prices, Barchart offers comprehensive solutions for deep sets of data. By providing simple access to this information over web-based APIs, our customers can now seamlessly integrate this valuable data into their workflows and applications easily," says Mark Haraburda, CEO of Barchart. "Like all of our commodity data products, users can also access this information through our flagship cmdtyView terminal which is changing the way grain market participants view and analyze the markets," added Haraburda.

Features of the offering include:

Coverage – Unmatched coverage of over 3,500 local grain bid locations in North America
Metadata – Rich metadata covering geo-location, facility type, FIPS codes and more
Ease of Access – Clients can pull grain bid data from the same APIs used to query exchange market data
Event Driven – Records are created on price changes – not just snapped from end-of-day prices
Charting – Use our well organized historical data to power high-performance charts in your front-end software

To learn more about Barchart's Grain Price Data, please visit: barchart.com/solutions/cmdty/data/grain-prices

About Barchart
Barchart is a leading provider of market data and services to the global financial, media, and commodity industries. Our diversified client base trusts Barchart's innovative Solutions across data, software, and technology to power their operation from front to back office, while our Media brands enable financial and commodity professionals to make decisions through web content, news and publications. For more information, please visit www.barchart.com/solutions and www.barchart.com.

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