Grain Journal

What Grain Journal does

Grain Journal is a privately held trade publishing company headquartered in Decatur, United States, founded in 1972. According to the firmographic record, the company engages in publishing content related to feed, milling, and biodiesel — three interconnected verticals within the grain processing and bioenergy value chain. This positions Grain Journal as a niche B2B trade title serving operators, processors, and equipment/service suppliers in those industrial segments. The company operates with a small team of 11-50 employees, consistent with the staffing profile of a focused trade publication rather than a diversified media group.

No information is available in the supplied data on specific product lines (print, digital, events, newsletters, directories), pricing models, advertising rates, subscription tiers, or circulation figures. No management team, ownership structure, funding history, partnerships, awards, certifications, or regulatory filings are disclosed. The company's public website (grainjournal.com) was captured as a loading/verification placeholder and yielded no substantive corporate, product, or operational information. No technology stack, integrations, API offerings, app presence, or social media profiles were identified in the source data.

As a result, the business model can only be characterized at a high level: Grain Journal is a small, long-running independent trade publisher monetizing its specialized audience in the feed/milling/biodiesel sectors, most likely through a combination of advertising, subscriptions, and possibly industry events or directories — though none of these revenue mechanics are confirmed in the input. Investor-relevant details (revenue, profitability, ownership, capital structure, strategic direction) are absent from the available evidence, and any analytical conclusions beyond the basic profile should be treated as low-confidence.

Name

Grain Journal

Website

https://grainjournal.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1972

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Grain Journal is a privately held trade publishing company founded in 1972 and based in Decatur, United States, producing editorial content serving the feed, milling, and biodiesel industries. It operates with 11-50 employees.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Trade Publishing

NAICS

Grain and Oilseed Milling (3112), Grain and Field Bean Merchant Wholesalers (424510)

SIC

Periodicals: Publishing Or Publishing & Printing (2721), Grain Mill Products (2040)

akta.pro primary industry

Flour & Milling Products Manufacturing (wheat, corn, rice, specialty flours) (AFAKABAD)

Keywords

• Trade publishing
• Feed industry media
• Grain milling news
• Biodiesel industry
• Agricultural processing

Headquarters

HQ city

Decatur

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Digital Commerce or Content

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Core offering

Grain Journal is a publishing company that produces editorial content focused on the feed, milling, and biodiesel industries. It operates as a niche trade media outlet providing industry news, information, and analysis to professionals and companies operating in agricultural commodity processing.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Grain Journal (trade publication) A trade publication delivering editorial content, industry news, and market information to professionals and companies in the feed manufacturing, grain milling, and biodiesel production sectors.

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

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Broad incumbents

• Argus Media: Global commodity price reporting and ag/energy/biofuels media business; an incumbent in the same price-reporting and analysis space that Grain Journal occupies for grain and biodiesel, but at much larger scale and with a paid-data revenue model.
• Successful Farming: Large-scale agricultural media brand covering the full farm production cycle; broader and higher-circulation than Grain Journal but operates the same trade-advertising-supported publishing model across overlapping ag audiences.
• Progressive Farmer: Established large-scale U.S. agricultural media property covering production agriculture; comparable as a long-tenured ag trade publisher, but with a much broader producer-facing focus than Grain Journal's grain/feed/milling/biodiesel industrial orientation.
• DTN / Progressive Farmer: Major agribusiness information and market data provider combining news, weather, and grain market pricing; a broader incumbent whose grain-market coverage overlaps Grain Journal's merchandiser audience and represents the kind of data-driven competitor that could displace traditional trade journalism.

Others

• Reuters Agriculture / Bloomberg Commodities: Large general financial and commodity news outlets with dedicated ag and biofuel coverage; not direct competitors in trade journalism, but they capture much of the high-end grain and biofuel market intelligence audience that Grain Journal also serves.

Direct peers

• Biomass Magazine: Trade publication covering the biodiesel, renewable diesel, ethanol, and broader biomass industries; directly comparable as a B2B trade journalism property in the biodiesel vertical that Grain Journal also covers.
• AgriMarketing: Trade publication and resource serving agricultural marketers and agribusiness communications; closely comparable B2B trade media model serving the broader ag industry in which Grain Journal's advertisers and readers operate.
• World Grain: Sosland Publishing's flagship global trade magazine for the grain handling, flour milling, and grain processing industries — essentially the most directly comparable title to Grain Journal in both subject matter (grain/flour milling) and B2B trade publishing model.
• Feedstuffs: Long-running B2B trade publication covering the U.S. feed manufacturing and animal nutrition industries — a directly comparable trade journalism model targeting adjacent but overlapping audiences to Grain Journal's feed and milling readership.
• Milling & Baking News: Sosland Publishing's milling and baking trade title covering flour milling and grain-based food manufacturing; covers the same core vertical as Grain Journal's milling pillar with a comparable trade journalism approach.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

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Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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