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Producer, merchant positions in ags for week to March 9

Markets Extra13 Mar 2021by Markets Extra

Below, revised details of the shifts in producer, merchant, processor and user positioning in US-traded agricultural commodities, in the eight days to March 9.

Data are for futures and options combined, and sourced from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.

Analysis of the previous week’s data is available here.

Producer, merchant net positioning in grains and oilseeds
Contract	Gross long position	Week-on-week change, gross long	Gross short position	Week-on-week change, gross short	Net long position	Week-on-week change, net long
Kansas City wheat	28,502	+277	113,212	-3,988	-84,710	+4,265
Chicago wheat	38,056	-680	154,947	-5,363	-116,891	+4,683
Chicago soymeal	118,823	+2,869	304,120	+6,087	-185,297	-3,218
Chicago soyoil	119,139	+14,950	354,249	+10,998	-235,110	+3,952
Chicago soybeans	290,583	+5,608	568,339	+9,995	-277,756	-4,387
Chicago corn	625,832	+5,824	1,349,025	-550	-723,193	+6,374
Data in number of contracts

Producer, merchant net positioning in New York-traded soft commodities
Contract	Gross long position	Week-on-week change, gross long	Gross short position	Week-on-week change, gross short	Net long position	Week-on-week change, net long
Cocoa	58,483	-2,135	122,755	-2,869	-64,272	+734
Arabica coffee	77,404	+7,230	156,613	-5,560	-79,209	+12,790
Cotton	45,209	+2,229	181,904	-7,535	-136,695	+9,764
Raw sugar	349,286	+18,581	619,345	-6,917	-270,059	+25,498
Data in number of contracts

Contract	Gross long position	Week-on-week change, gross long	Gross short position	Week-on-week change, gross short	Net long position	Week-on-week change, net long
Feeder cattle	6,329	+162	9,060	+905	-2,731	-743
Lean hogs	24,307	+1,720	158,765	+7,662	-134,458	-5,942
Live cattle	41,479	+247	211,295	-413	-169,816	+660
Data in number of contracts

Contract	Gross long position	Week-on-week change, gross long	Gross short position	Week-on-week change, gross short	Net long position	Week-on-week change, net long
Livestock	72,115	+2,129	379,120	+8,154	-307,005	-6,025
Soft commodities	530,382	+25,905	1,080,617	-22,881	-550,235	+48,786
Grain and oilseeds	1,220,935	+28,848	2,843,892	+17,179	-1,622,957	+11,669
Overall position	1,823,432	*+56,882*	4,303,629	*+2,452*	-2,480,197	*+54,430*
Data in number of contracts

* = most extreme on data going back to 2006

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