COT reports: Long positions held by producers and merchants in corn futures: CORN - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE (number of contracts) - United States - CFTC - Weekly
This series is part of the dataset: Corn futures COT reports (CFTC)
Download Full Dataset (.xlsx)Latest updates. According to the Commitments of Traders (COT) reports published by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), long positions held by producers and merchants in corn futures of the kind "CORN - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" stood at 327,453 contracts on 18 August 2026, compared to 335,547 on 11 August 2026.
Sample. There are 1,054 records in the weekly series displayed in the plot above. The span of time covered by the series is from June 2006 to August 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at some summary statistics computed on the full sample: positions had an average value of 331,289 contracts; they recorded a bottom of 102,373 on 31 August 2010; they recorded their maximum of 593,215 on 23 April 2019.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-04 | 327115.0 |
| 2026-08-11 | 335547.0 |
| 2026-08-18 | 327453.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Long positions held by producers and merchants in corn futures |
| Country | United States |
| Economic concept | Stock |
| Data type | Quantity |
| Seasonally adjusted | No |
| Deflation method | Not applicable |
| Rescaling | None |
| Measure type | Level |
| Frequency | Weekly |
| Unit | Number of contracts |
| Source | Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) |
| Source type | Government agency |
| Data licence | Public domain information |
| Other information | Specific future: CORN - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | LW1 |
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