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Corn prices are now up about 10% over the past month. The surge came after prices hit 2020 lows last year due to oversupply, which eroded farmers' incomes and hit the rural economy hard.
Corn futures prices that approached $6.30 a bushel in June have since tumbled to $4.10, after U.S. farmers ultimately produced record crop yields. "I wish I sold a lot more," Henebry said.
In 1934, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics began the computation of a daily Commodity price index that became available to the public in 1940. By 1952, the Bureau of Labor Statistics issued a Spot Market Price Index that measured the price movements of "22 sensitive basic commodities whose markets are presumed to be among the first to be influenced by changes in economic conditions.
Afton Historical Society Press in collaboration with the Minneapolis Grain Exchange. ISBN 1-890434-74-4. Minter, Adam (August 2006). "Gimme Grain!". The Rake. Archived from the original on 2007-09-28; Minneapolis Public Library (2001). "A History of Minneapolis: Milling". Archived from the original on 2007-04-27
The Refinitiv Equal Weight Commodity Index (formerly known as the Continuous Commodity Index) is a major US barometer of commodity prices. The index comprises 17 commodity futures that are continuously rebalanced: cocoa, coffee, copper, corn, cotton, crude oil, gold, heating oil, live cattle, live hogs, natural gas, orange juice, platinum, silver, soybeans, Sugar No. 11, and wheat.
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For example, each "tick" for the grain market (soybeans, corn and wheat) is 0.25 cents per bushel, on one 5,000-bushel futures contract. Tick values for some popular contracts (as of June 2010 [ 1 ] )
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