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" stood at 656,351 contracts on 27 January 2026, compared to 652,463 on 20 January.
Sample. In the weekly series presented in the chart, there are 1,025 data points. The series covers the time range going from June 2006 to January 2026.
History. Here's a glimpse of some descriptive statistics computed on the full sample: positions recorded their maximum of 1,309,007 contracts on 9 February 2021; they reached a trough of 297,296 on 3 March 2009; they averaged 672,835.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-01-13 | 661823.0 |
| 2026-01-20 | 652463.0 |
| 2026-01-27 | 656351.0 |
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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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