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" stood at -245,821 contracts on 17 February 2026, compared to -239,098 on 10 February 2026.
Sample. The weekly series displayed in the figure has 1,028 data points overall. The span of time covered by the series is from June 2006 to February 2026.
History. Have a look at a few summary statistics we computed on the whole sample: positions recorded their maximum of 48,600 contracts on 20 February 2024; they reached a minimum of -783,355 on 23 February 2021; they had an average value of -342,783.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-02-03 | -207268.0 |
| 2026-02-10 | -239098.0 |
| 2026-02-17 | -245821.0 |
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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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