SUMMARY
The purpose of writing the article is to justify the methodological principles and recommendations for the functioning of agricultural enterprises-producers of grain in the target markets for its sale under the conditions of globalization challenges. The production and sale of grain traditionally remains the main focus of the specialization of domestic agricultural enterprises, the source of more than a significant share of their income, the formation and implementation of export potential of the agrarian sector of the national economy, the solution of a number of problematic issues of food security and ensuring the stable development of the subjects of the sphere of production of various sectoral belonging and orientation. At the same time, raising the economic efficiency of the main activities of agricultural enterprises remains a central problem, which in fact produces a complex, multi-faceted, and multi-level problem of the formation and functioning of mechanisms for the effective functioning of agricultural enterprises in the grain market. Research methodology. The theoretical and methodological basis of the research is the classical positions of economic theory, fundamental works, and scientific developments of domestic and foreign scientists on the effective functioning of agricultural enterprises in the grain market, the dialectic method of cognition, and the systematic approach to the study of social phenomena and processes that occur in the process of carrying out the main activity enterprises producing grain. In accordance with the goals and objectives of the article, such general scientific and special methods of economic research as monographic (in-depth study of the set tasks), abstract-logical (a theoretical generalization of the research results and formulation of conclusions and proposals) were used. Taken together, these methods form the methodological basis of the study. Results. After conducting the research, we decided that the study of the problem of the functioning of agricultural enterprises in the grain market is the study of methodological approaches to the evaluation of structural and dynamic trends of development and the state of the situation of target markets for the production of agricultural enterprises-producers of grain in the context of establishing systems supporting strategic and tactical and operational decisions in the production and commercial planes based on the system of integral indicators and individual indicators of the state of the targets. Practical use. The results of the research can be used at the state and regional levels of management in forecasting the change and the state of market equilibrium in the agrarian market of Ukraine and the conjuncture of the world and regional markets for agricultural products and food.