$ shortage commodity get GRN.CORN > spot: $4.408/bu > stress_index: 0.58 WATCH > updated 14:30 UTC
BRENT $72.13/b ● TTF €44.25/MWh ● OPEC_ORB n/a SPR_US 331.2 Mb ▼ FAO_FFPI 130.8 ▼
Corn, the world's largest feed and biofuel grain. The hinge of the global animal-protein cost base.
Corn is the world's most-produced cereal grain, traded primarily through the Chicago Board of Trade in US dollars per bushel. Used for feed (60% of demand), ethanol, sweeteners and direct food. Current spot: $4.408/bu, stress index 0.58.
Corn, the world's largest feed and biofuel grain. The hinge of the global animal-protein cost base. At the latest reading, Corn prints a spot of $4.408/bu — a move of ▲0.90% over the past twenty-four hours and ▲6.10% across the trailing thirty days.
The v3.2 stress index places GRN.CORN at 0.58 — a watch reading on a composite that blends price momentum, inventory cover, supplier concentration and geopolitical exposure. The metric is recomputed on every ingestion cycle, and the weekly delta is the line worth tracking rather than the absolute level.
For operators, the question is not the spot itself but the buffer behind it. A tightening reading on Corn compounds with any incident on a shared transit route or producer, and the cascade is rarely linear. The scenarios below carry GRN.CORN as an explicit input — each one is wargamed and reviewed against this commodity's exposure profile.
No active scenario currently carries Corn as an explicit input.