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shortage.life
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$ shortage commodity get GRN.CORN
> spot: $4.408/bu
> stress_index: 0.58 WATCH
> updated 14:30 UTC

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BRENT     $72.13/b 
TTF       €44.25/MWh 
OPEC_ORB  n/a
SPR_US    331.2 Mb 
FAO_FFPI  130.8 
auto-refresh 60slatency 312msbuild 0.3.0commit f3a2c81UTC 00:00:00
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BRENT$72.13● 0.0%TTF€44.25● 0.0%HH$3.25● 0.0%SPR_US331.2 Mb17.0dEU_GAS47.7%18c avgFAO_FFPI130.8▼0.2%WHT$6.00/bu● 0.0%BRENT$72.13● 0.0%TTF€44.25● 0.0%HH$3.25● 0.0%SPR_US331.2 Mb17.0dEU_GAS47.7%18c avgFAO_FFPI130.8▼0.2%WHT$6.00/bu● 0.0%
~/commodities/corn·category: foodcite · /api/v1/commodities/GRN.CORN

Corn / GRN.CORN

food$/buupdated: 14:30 UTC
WATCH
SPOT · $/bu$4.408/bu
Δ24H▲0.90%
Δ7D▲2.40%
Δ30D▲6.10%
STRESS · v3.20.58

[ 00 ]  $_SERIES · GRN.CORN · spot trend

GRN.CORN · $/bulast 5.28
READ MODE// long-form zoneEDITORIAL · commodity analysisdesk: Markets·last revision 14:30 UTC
Commodity analysis · GRN.CORN · v3.2

Corn, and what the reading means.

Corn, the world's largest feed and biofuel grain. The hinge of the global animal-protein cost base.

Desk Markets·EN · FR · ES, DE pending·sources: EIA, OPEC, IEA, FAO, USDA

What is Corn?

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.

Frequently asked

What is the world corn production outlook?
USDA WASDE projects world corn production at roughly 1,232 million metric tonnes for 2025/26. The United States is the largest producer (~380 MMT), followed by China (~290 MMT), Brazil (~140 MMT), the EU (~62 MMT) and Argentina (~50 MMT).
How does ethanol policy affect corn prices?
Roughly 35% of US corn output is diverted to ethanol production under the EPA's Renewable Fuel Standard. Changes to the RFS blending requirement or to EV adoption rates materially shift the food-vs-fuel competition for the US corn crop and ripple through global feed prices.
What is the current Corn price?
The current Corn spot price is $4.408/bu, refreshed in real time on shortage.life from primary institutional sources. The shortage.life v3.2 stress index reading is 0.58 — see /methodology for how the composite is computed and how the components are weighted.

[ 02 ]  $_COUNTRIES · GRN.CORN · production

Top by production

USDA-WASDE · USDA-WASDE · latest 2026-05-13
  1. USAUSA14,892Million Bushels● 0.0%
  2. CHNCHN294.92Million Metric Tons● 0.0%
  3. BRABRA136Million Metric Tons● 0.0%
  4. EUREUR59.59Million Metric Tons▲ 1.0%
  5. ARGARG49Million Metric Tons▼ 2.0%
  6. UKRUKR26.8Million Metric Tons● 0.0%
  7. MEXMEX23.1Million Metric Tons● 0.0%
  8. CANCAN15.35Million Metric Tons● 0.0%

Biggest movers (m/m)

USDA-WASDE · |Δ| desc — anomaly-led view · USDA-WASDE · latest 2026-05-13
  1. ARGARG49Million Metric Tons▼ 2.0%
  2. EUREUR59.59Million Metric Tons▲ 1.0%
  3. UKRUKR26.8Million Metric Tons● 0.0%
  4. RUSRUS14Million Metric Tons● 0.0%
  5. MEXMEX23.1Million Metric Tons● 0.0%
  6. EGYEGY7Million Metric Tons● 0.0%
  7. CHNCHN294.92Million Metric Tons● 0.0%
  8. CANCAN15.35Million Metric Tons● 0.0%

[ 01 ]  $_SCENARIOS · with GRN.CORN exposure

No active scenario currently carries Corn as an explicit input.

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