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CORN holds a blend of CBOT corn futures contracts across near-month, second-to-expire, and December delivery dates. That structure reduces over-concentration in a single contract month, which limits but does not eliminate futures roll costs. The fund launched in June 2010 and holds roughly $45 million in net assets, making it a small but functional vehicle for those seeking direct corn price exposure without a futures brokerage account.
Upwards of $11 billion is set aside for the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Farmer Bridge Assistance program, which the White House says will offer one-time payments to farmers for row crops. Soybeans and sorghum were hit the hardest by the trade dispute with China because more than half of those crops are exported each year with most of the harvest going to China. The aid is meant to help farmers who have suffered from trade wars with other nations, inflation, and other market disruptions.