How to Use oilseed in a Sentence

oilseed

noun

• Since the beginning of June, prices for the oilseeds have fallen 19% to the lowest levels in a decade.
  — WSJ, 12 July 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
• Brazil ran out of the oilseed earlier than usual this year.
  — Mark Weinraub and Ana Mano Reuters, Star Tribune, 21 Nov. 2020
• Grain and oilseed prices are in sharp focus as food inflation surges.
  — Kim Chipman, Bloomberg.com, 11 Mar. 2022
• The oldest oilseed crop has roots dating back centuries.
  — Dallas News, 24 July 2020
• In Cedar Rapids, the storm damaged a silo at Cargill Inc.'s oilseed processing plant.
  — Mike Hughlett, Star Tribune, 11 Aug. 2020
• 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 deficit had narrowed earlier in the year as U.S. producers rushed out exports of the oilseed to beat those tariffs.
  — Paul Vieira, WSJ, 5 Sep. 2018
• 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
• In the United States, many seeds that don’t need hulling are harvested from two pumpkin varieties: oilseed and snow whites.
  — Florence Fabricant, New York Times, 14 Oct. 2019
• For soybeans, La Nina is deemed as less threatening for the world’s biggest producer of the oilseed.
  — Tatiana Freitas, Fortune, 29 Sep. 2020
• Soybean meal futures climbed on concerns the oilseed could be targeted next.
  — Bloomberg.com, 17 Apr. 2018
• 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
• The oilseed is the top agricultural commodity that the U.S. ships to China by far and is among the largest products for overall exports.
  — Fortune, 6 July 2018
• That includes oilseeds, meat, cereals, ethanol and cotton.
  — Fortune, 16 Jan. 2020
• 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
• Soy delays may have some consequences for corn and cotton planted just after the oilseed harvest.
  — Tatiana Freitas, Fortune, 29 Sep. 2020
• Farmers in northeastern Germany have complained of damage caused by dry weather to crops such as oilseed rape.
  — Washington Post, 30 May 2018
• 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
• 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
• Bioscience is developing both spring and winter varieties of the oilseed Camelina to be used as cover crops.
  — Lana Bandoim, Forbes, 18 June 2021
• 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
• 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
• Nearly all of neonic use in the U.S. is for coating seeds, including almost all corn and oilseed rape seed, the majority of soy and cotton seeds, and many yard plants from garden centers.
  — National Geographic, 6 Aug. 2019
• 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
• 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
• During the second quarter, global demand for the oilseed is usually focused on Brazil due to the Southern Hemisphere harvest season.
  — Paul Kiernan, WSJ, 6 July 2018
• While large grain and oilseed operations in the U.S. don’t rely as much on seasonal workers, many fruit and vegetable operators do.
  — Time, 18 Mar. 2020
• Soybeans have been a target of China’s planned retaliation against the U.S. tariffs, derailing the oilseed’s rally this year.
  — Bloomberg.com, 21 Apr. 2018

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024