How to Use oilseed in a Sentence

oilseed

noun
  • Grain and oilseed prices fell as traders focused on whether the Iran war could end soon.
    — Erin Ailworth, Bloomberg, 1 Apr. 2026
  • Grain and oilseed prices are in sharp focus as food inflation surges.
    — Kim Chipman, Bloomberg.com, 11 Mar. 2022
  • There is a kicker in that grains and oilseeds are perishable and storage is short.
    — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 12 Oct. 2025
  • Russia and Ukraine are among the world's top producers of grains and oilseeds.
    — George Petras, USA Today, 17 July 2023
  • Soybean meal futures climbed on concerns the oilseed could be targeted next.
    — Bloomberg.com, 17 Apr. 2018
  • Soybeans, corn and wheat dropped in Chicago with the oilseed touching the lowest in more than a month.
    — Saket Sundria, Bloomberg.com, 29 Apr. 2020
  • Soy delays may have some consequences for corn and cotton planted just after the oilseed harvest.
    — Tatiana Freitas, Fortune, 29 Sep. 2020
  • The price of corn oil will rise, but so will the price of oils from soybeans and other oilseeds that may be equally affected by bad weather.
    — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 23 June 2019
  • Since the beginning of June, prices for the oilseeds have fallen 19% to the lowest levels in a decade.
    — WSJ, 12 July 2018
  • Farmers in northeastern Germany have complained of damage caused by dry weather to crops such as oilseed rape.
    — Washington Post, 30 May 2018
  • Bunge Global is one of the world’s largest traders and processors of grains and oilseeds, such as soybeans, corn, wheat and sunflower seeds.
    — Michael Khouw, CNBC, 2 Jan. 2025
  • For soybeans, La Nina is deemed as less threatening for the world’s biggest producer of the oilseed.
    — Tatiana Freitas, Fortune, 29 Sep. 2020
  • Farmers might be convinced to plant oilseed cover crops because the crop can pay for itself by producing oils that can be supplied to biorefineries.
    — Peter Fairley, Scientific American, 13 Dec. 2022
  • Bioscience is developing both spring and winter varieties of the oilseed Camelina to be used as cover crops.
    — Lana Bandoim, Forbes, 18 June 2021
  • Record Crops Bumper harvests helped by normal rain last year after back-to-back droughts pushed down prices of some crops including oilseeds and pulses.
    — Pratik Parija, Bloomberg.com, 14 June 2017
  • Farmers planted more soybeans than corn this spring for the first time in 35 years, betting in part on a robust Chinese appetite for oilseed.
    — Francesca Fontana, WSJ, 10 Aug. 2018
  • Livestock, feed grains, and oilseeds see low import rates, according to the USDA.
    — Solcyré Burga, Time, 10 Apr. 2025
  • In addition to use as an oilseed crop, yellow mustard is also produced as condiment mustard, green manure, and as a biopesticide.
    — oregonlive, 8 May 2021
  • The oilseed, the most exposed of all assets to a trade war, is now a buy, according to Goldman Sachs Group Inc. In China, soybean meal futures rose 4% on concerns about a possible shortage looming.
    — Bloomberg, latimes.com, 5 July 2018
  • In normal times, Black Sea ports account for 90% of Ukraine’s grain and oilseed exports, the commission says.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 24 May 2022
  • The country’s large volume of imports of land-intensive crops including grains, oilseeds and cotton, help save its farmland and water resources.
    — Bloomberg.com, 27 June 2018
  • Drought wilted rice fields in Thailand and Indonesia, and scorched sugar cane plantations and oilseed crops in India.
    — Stephen Leahy, National Geographic, 8 Aug. 2019
  • The suspension on the three soybean exporters on top of higher import tariffs will further restrict imports of the oilseed into China.
    — Mei Mei Chu and Ella Cao, USA TODAY, 4 Mar. 2025
  • An enormous structural problem in the agri-food system is that demand for grains and oilseeds for biofuels, and especially for animal feed, has grown far faster than the demand for food.
    — Christopher B. Barrett, Foreign Affairs, 25 July 2022
  • The duties of 25% already have the country’s grain merchants buying more soybeans from Brazil, but the agency says higher costs will force some to cut back on oilseed consumption.
    — Benjamin Parkin, WSJ, 19 July 2018
  • In a paper published in Nature Sustainability, the group showed how to make significant amounts of two important moth pheromones from an oilseed plant.
    — WIRED, 23 Nov. 2022
  • Bunge, the world’s largest oilseed processor, boosted its crop-processing profit forecast to between $800 million and $1 billion for the year.
    — Jacob Bunge, WSJ, 2 May 2018
  • Global food prices had already reached records when Russia invaded Ukraine in late February and jeopardized big slices of the world’s grain and oilseed supplies.
    — Ryan Dezember, WSJ, 28 Apr. 2022
  • Chinese leaders have swallowed their pride and made vigorous efforts to mend fences with the South American country, a far less powerful exporter of meat and oilseeds.
    — David Fickling | Bloomberg, Washington Post, 13 Dec. 2019
  • The strain of cannabis found at Jiayi does not contain THC, and would have been primarily been used as a source of fiber for clothing and rope, as well as nutrient-rich oilseed.
    — Michelle Z. Donahue, National Geographic, 12 June 2019

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