COT reports: Short 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), short positions held by producers and merchants in corn futures of the kind "CORN - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" were 975,295 contracts on 31 March 2026, compared to 1,001,091 on 24 March 2026.
Sample. In this weekly time series, there are 1,034 data points overall. The period covered by the series stretches from June 2006 to March 2026.
History. Here's a glimpse of some simple statistics computed on the entire sample: positions had a mean value of 674,183 contracts; they hit a peak of 1,309,007 on 9 February 2021; they reached their lowest level of 297,296 on 3 March 2009.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-03-17 | 955652.0 |
| 2026-03-24 | 1001091.0 |
| 2026-03-31 | 975295.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short 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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