The U.S. Grains Council (USGC) released a grains conversion calculator app and a U.S. grains-in-all-forms exports portal at its recently-concluded annual meeting in Sarasota, Florida, to help members of the global grain trade access critical information more easily.

“We are excited to expand our digital presence to include these products that will be helpful for both domestic and international stakeholders,� said USGC Chairman Alan Tiemann, who farms in Nebraska. “The grains conversion app and the grains-in-all-forms exports portal are cutting-edge resources that contain information, trends and statistics that will help the global grain trade work efficiently and grow.�

The Council’s grains conversion app converts English units to metric units and vice-versa for grains and related measures. To view the app on iTunes, please visit https://itunes.apple.com/am/app/u.s.-grains-council-conversion/id1078739553?mt=8. Similar versions are available in the Google Play and Windows Media marketplaces.

The U.S. grains-in-all-forms exports portal is an online calculator that converts volumes of exported U.S. corn, sorghum, barley and their co-products, ethanol and meat products into corn equivalents.

This portal allows users to access raw export data, corn equivalent data and U.S. dollar values for each country and the world as a whole for the past five marketing years. To explore this page, go to http://grains.org/market-data/feed-grain-exports-in-all-forms.

More about the Council is available at www.grains.org or online via Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, LinkedIn and Instagram, all of which are regularly updated with new information, clips and photos.