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 1,082,314 contracts on 29 September 2026, compared to 1,088,806 on 22 September.
Sample. In this weekly time series, there are 1,060 data points overall. The time period covered by the series goes from June 2006 to September 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of a few statistics calculated on the full sample: positions were equal on average to 680,149 contracts; they registered a minimum of 297,296 on 3 March 2009; they attained a maximum of 1,309,007 on 9 February 2021.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-15 | 1097930.0 |
| 2026-09-22 | 1088806.0 |
| 2026-09-29 | 1082314.0 |
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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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