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Through 2 October the iGrow Intelligence database holds 127 records tagged to cereals and grains for 2026, against 53 for the same window in 2025. Partnerships and product launches drove most of that increase, capital reached more companies in smaller amounts, ownership changes edged up from five to six, and the financial distress that ran through last year's set is absent this year.

This edition covers land-based agriculture and agtech only. Aquaculture, energy and water are tracked separately and excluded here. The scope is every record carrying a cereal or grain crop tag: corn and maize, wheat and buckwheat, rice, barley, sorghum, oats, and the generic grain and cereal tags. The windows compared are 1 January to 2 October 2026 and 1 January to 2 October 2025. Eight records that matched a grain tag sit outside that scope and are excluded throughout: five on the energy beat, two on the water beat, and one USDA specialty crop program that matched on a sweet corn tag.

Records for 2025 are still being backfilled, so the raw volume gap overstates real growth. Shares of activity are the more reliable comparison, and this edition uses them wherever the base is large enough to support them.

Records count every database entry carrying a cereal or grain crop tag, of any news type. Recorded capital sums all instruments that carry a dollar figure, so venture equity, debt, bonds, grants, listed equity and state investment all count. It is shown here without Egypt's $15.0 billion New Delta land reclamation project, which alone is 95.2% of the 2026 figure. Countries count the primary country on each record.

The United States holds 52 of the 127 records, or 40.9%, down from 25 of 53, or 47.2%, a year ago. Behind it sit France and the United Kingdom with 8 each, Switzerland with 7, and Germany, India and Israel with 6 each. The top five countries account for 81 records, or 63.8% of the set, against 41 records and 77.4% last year. Countries with at least one record rose from 14 to 27. Switzerland moved up the most, from 2 records to 7, and India doubled from 3 to 6. Sixteen countries appear this year that had no cereals or grains record in the 2025 window, among them Egypt, Japan, Oman, Peru, Thailand, Vietnam, Brazil and Australia. Three that appeared last year have none this year: Argentina, Mexico and New Zealand.

Corn carries the most records at 56, or 44.1% of the set, up from 18 and 34.0%. Wheat follows with 35 records, or 27.6%, against 13 and 24.5%, and rice holds 23, or 18.1%, against 11 and 20.8%. The generic grain and cereal tags cover 21 records between them, against 7. Barley rose from 1 record to 8, maize from 2 to 7, and oats from none to 2. Sorghum is the only grain that fell, from 9 records to 4, and eight of last year's nine were coverage of one company's collapse. Records often carry several crop tags, so these shares sum above 100%: Vylor's separation from Corteva counts toward corn, soybeans and wheat at once.