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 -184,466 contracts on 20 January 2026, versus -198,776 on 13 January 2026.
Sample. There are 1,024 records in the weekly series displayed in the plot above. The series covers the time span going from June 2006 to January 2026.
History. Here's a glimpse of some summary statistics we computed on the full sample: positions recorded their highest level of 48,600 contracts on 20 February 2024; they hit a minimum of -783,355 on 23 February 2021; they were equal on average to -343,247.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-01-06 | -277791.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | -198776.0 |
| 2026-01-20 | -184466.0 |
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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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