In short: Oilseed meals and feed grains from Ukraine are bought on crude protein, fibre, moisture and contaminant results, with the basis stated. Grade names such as HiPro are trade conventions, and feed law sets the material names and undesirable substances.
What the category includes
- Sunflower meal – low-pro, standard and HiPro grades set by dehulling.
- Rapeseed meal – protein with glucosinolates and fibre to watch.
- Feed barley – bought on hectolitre weight, moisture and mycotoxins.
- Soybean meal – the benchmark the others are priced against.
How meal is graded
Meal protein rises as more hull is removed before crushing, and fibre falls. Grades are trade conventions, so the contract must give a protein minimum, a fibre maximum and the moisture basis. The sunflower meal grades guide explains the bands, and what HiPro means is the short version.
Feed law and schemes
Regulation (EC) No 767/2009 governs placing feed on the market and labelling; the Catalogue in Regulation (EU) No 68/2013 gives the names; Regulation (EC) No 183/2005 requires registered feed business operators; Directive 2002/32/EC and Recommendation 2006/576/EC cover undesirable substances and mycotoxins. GMP+ and FAMI-QS are private schemes, not law.
Contracts and transport
Meal and feed grain usually trade on GAFTA forms; see what a GAFTA contract is. Bulk vessels carry most volume, containers serve smaller buyers, and moisture and temperature at loading decide whether meal self-heats. The mycotoxins guide covers testing. Vorezan does not sell or broker meal; these pages explain how the category works.
Each product record gives the contract parameters, the reference methods and the feed law that applies, and the guides explain how grades are made and how offers are compared on the same basis. Feed buyers who start from the ration, then the basis, then the logistics, avoid most disputes before the first vessel is loaded.