COT reports: Net 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), net long positions held by producers and merchants in corn futures of the kind "CORN - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" were -589,440 contracts on 18 August 2026, compared to -525,668 on 11 August.
Sample. There are 1,054 data points overall in the weekly series presented in the plot above. The series covers the time range stretching from June 2006 to August 2026.
History. Here are a few descriptive statistics we calculated on the full sample: positions had a mean value of -346,652 contracts; they recorded a minimum of -783,355 on 23 February 2021; they recorded their maximum of 48,600 on 20 February 2024.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-04 | -536199.0 |
| 2026-08-11 | -525668.0 |
| 2026-08-18 | -589440.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Net 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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