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A sponsored CME Group article traces the history of grain futures from the 1877 launch of corn, wheat and oats contracts at the Chicago Board of Trade. It describes how Chicago storage capacity led to forward contracts and then standardized futures.
This is background on futures market history with no new supply, demand or price driver for feed markets.
sponsor.marketwatch.comMarketWatch Custom ContentDec 3, 2018Not enough comparable past events yet for a historical read.
Moves of each commodity's benchmark from the last close before the event. Historical reads pool past events of the same kind; they describe what happened, not what will. Not investment advice.
