Grist is an ongoing project that explores our relationship with cereal grains and oilseeds, commodified products that provide around half of all the calories that humans consume. It is a product that is at the centre of turbulent global affairs following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. My interest within this subject area was triggered by working on an arable cereal farm last summer. As part of my investigation to understand more about the people they involve and the networks in which they rely upon, I travelled to Romania, whose unique location has made it a key player in the humanitarian movement of wheat and oilseeds from Ukraine to the rest of the world.