Corn Future Prices

corn futures prices are traded on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. Each contract is for 5,000 bushels (~ 127 Metric Tons). Prices are quoted in Cents per bushel.

Corn Futures contracts exist for the months of March (H), May (K), July (N), September (U) and December (Z).

Name	Symbol	Exchange	Months	Category	Price	Change
Corn	C	CME	HKNUZ	Agricultural	344.75	0.44%

 

Corn futures slumped to a fresh five-year low Tuesday after the U.S. Department of Agriculture reported larger-than-expected stockpiles of the grain.

Wheat and soybean prices also fell.

The Agriculture Department, in a closely watched quarterly report, said corn in U.S. storage bins totaled 1.236 billion bushels on Sept corn futures prices. 1, up from just 821 million bushels a year earlier. Analysts surveyed by The Wall Street Journal expected the government to peg stockpiles at 1.181 billion bushels.

Corn stockpiles likely topped expectations because demand for feed grains from livestock producers was lower than expected, analysts said. They noted that U.S. supplies of hogs and cattle that are fattened on corn have declined this year, due to a deadly disease afflicting young pigs and a prolonged drought in Plains states, where beef cattle are raised.

“We’re just not feeding as much corn as we thought we would,” said Karl Setzer, an analyst with MaxYield Cooperative in West Bend, Iowa.

Corn future contracts with prices: 

Continuous Contracts

Contract	Price	As Of	1-Day Chg	MTD Chg	YTD Chg	Volume	Open Interest	Historical Data
C1	344.75	09-Oct-2015	0.44%	7.48%	-18.31%	170,873	753,204	Historical Data
C10	486.50	28-Mar-2015	-0.26%	2.31%	4.57%	16	369	Historical Data
C11	490.50	28-Mar-2015	-0.15%	1.82%	4.03%	2	28	Historical Data
C2	357.75	09-Oct-2015	0.35%	7.27%	-16.85%	37,358	244,786	Historical Data
C3	366.50	09-Oct-2015	0.34%	7.16%	-16.13%	15,600	66,833	Historical Data
C4	374.00	09-Oct-2015	0.20%	7.01%	-15.67%	17,519	91,163	Historical Data
C5	381.50	09-Oct-2015	0.20%	6.94%	-15.27%	4,032	24,626	Historical Data
C6	390.00	09-Oct-2015	0.00%	6.34%	-15.40%	18,790	112,391	Historical Data
C7	385.25	12-Sep-2015	-0.58%	-5.11%	-17.55%	6,273	96,010	Historical Data
C8	425.25	14-Jul-2015	n.a.	-4.76%	-9.67%	3,813	60,392	Historical Data
C9	482.75	16-May-2015	-0.10%	-4.03%	4.27%	2,667	44,769	Historical Data

Historical continuous contract data is available from 01-Jul-1959 to 09-Oct-2015.