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" were 343,234 contracts on 19 May 2026, compared to 334,749 on 12 May.
Sample. There are 1,041 observations in the weekly time series displayed in the chart above. The time span covered by the series goes from June 2006 to May 2026.
History. Here are a few summary statistics computed on the whole sample: positions averaged 330,829 contracts; they reached their highest level of 593,215 on 23 April 2019; they reached a minimum of 102,373 on 31 August 2010.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-05 | 348374.0 |
| 2026-05-12 | 334749.0 |
| 2026-05-19 | 343234.0 |
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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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