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 652,463 contracts on 20 January 2026, compared to 661,823 on 13 January.
Sample. In the weekly series presented in the plot, there are 1,024 observations. The span of time covered by the series extends from June 2006 to January 2026.
History. Here's a peek at a few descriptive statistics we calculated on the entire sample: positions were equal on average to 672,851 contracts; they hit a minimum of 297,296 on 3 March 2009; they peaked at 1,309,007 on 9 February 2021.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-01-06 | 674982.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 661823.0 |
| 2026-01-20 | 652463.0 |
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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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