# Paid Program: How Grain Futures Revolutionized Finance

> 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.

- Date: 2018-12-03 · published 2018-12-03T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: market · region US · magnitude low
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/61633-paid-program-how-grain-futures-revolutionized-finance
- Commodities: [Oats](https://feedsoft.ai/c/OATS.md)

## Why it matters

This is background on futures market history with no new supply, demand or price driver for feed markets.

## Sources

- sponsor.marketwatch.com: https://sponsor.marketwatch.com/cme-group/how-grain-futures-revolutionized-finance/

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