Corn futures provide a way to:

• Participate in global price discovery for corn
• Effectively manage the price risk that corn merchandisers, producers, food processors, livestock operations, importers and others have related to the purchase or sale of corn
• Take advantage of arbitrage and spread opportunities with other commodities including related grains & oilseeds, meats and Ethanol futures
• Trade in deep liquid markets
• Evaluate or reflect on both the current and future supply and demand situation for corn
• Identify short and long-term cyclical price and volatility patterns for corn
• Trade to hedge or speculate based on expectations of directional price, spread movement or volatility in corn

Things to Know:

• Corn futures are a dollar denominated physical delivery 5,000 bushel (approx. 127 metric tons) contract
• Contracts are available for trading over 15 hours per day providing customers access regardless of their time zone
• Corn is traded electronically on CME Globex during the Asian & European daytime market hours as well as during the primary grain trading hours side-by-side with the open auction platform
• Primary uses of corn include livestock feed, ethanol, edible oil and other foods
• Corn is also used in the manufacture of plastics, solvents and other industrial and household products