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Corn
Corn (ZC)

Today's Snapshot

Plenty of contracts were traded in the Dec '26 Corn contract (319,491) but ultimately it wound up largely unchanged. Settlement price edged up 01'2 (+0.27%) to 463'2 Wednesday, which broke a streak of it dropping for six days in a row.

Dec '26 Corn was the only product within Benchmark Grain and Oilseed front months to head up. Dropping from 643'2 to 628'2 (-2.33%), the Dec '26 Chicago Wheat contract saw the biggest decrease.

Implied volatility for the Dec '26 option expiry rose 0.60 pts to 17.55%, which is the third consecutive day that it has gone up. Butterfly skew climbed from 0.09 to 0.35. This is the third biggest daily increase for the last 90 days.

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SETTLEMENT PRICE 10/21/26

463'2

DAILY CHANGE

0.27%

ZCZ6

DAILY LOW

453'4

DAILY HIGH

464'6

ZCZ6

LAST YEAR VALUE

419'6

YEAR OVER YEAR CHANGE

10.36%

ZCZ5

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