Agricultural & Food Commodity ETFs

Agricultural commodity ETFs provide exposure to food production commodities like corn, wheat, and soybeans, allowing investors to diversify beyond stocks and bonds.

They serve as inflation hedges, geopolitical risk plays, and portfolio diversifiers with low correlation to traditional assets.

CORN is the Teucrium Corn Fund, providing pure-play exposure to corn futures used in food, feed, ethanol, and industrial products.

WEAT is the Teucrium Wheat Fund, offering exposure to wheat futures affected by global weather and geopolitical events like the Russia-Ukraine conflict.

SOYB is the Teucrium Soybean Fund, providing exposure to soybean futures, the world’s most traded oilseed used in food processing and biofuel production.

ETFs like DBC and PDBC track a basket of commodities including agriculture, energy, and metals, spreading risk across multiple assets.

DBC is a broad commodity ETF offering exposure to energy, agriculture, and metals through futures contracts.

PDBC provides similar diversified commodity exposure using an optimized futures rolling strategy to reduce costs.

CGW invests in water utilities and infrastructure companies, providing thematic exposure to global water scarcity and treatment demand.

Futures-based ETFs can suffer contango drag, where rolling expiring contracts into more expensive future contracts reduces returns in flat markets.

They can be used for diversification and inflation protection but may not provide consistent long-term growth like equities.

Single commodity ETFs focus on one crop (e.g., corn, wheat, soybean), while diversified ETFs spread exposure across multiple commodities.

Yes, commodity prices often rise during inflationary periods, making these ETFs effective hedges.

CORN generally has high liquidity among agricultural ETFs, making it easier to trade.

Events like conflicts, trade disputes, or sanctions can impact crop supply and prices, affecting ETFs tracking those commodities.

Contango occurs when future contracts are more expensive than current ones. It can reduce returns for futures-based ETFs if contracts are continuously rolled.

Physical-backed ETFs avoid contango drag, but most agricultural ETFs are futures-based due to storage and delivery constraints.

They cover grains like corn, wheat, soybeans, as well as related infrastructure like water utilities in some thematic ETFs.

Investors seeking portfolio diversification, inflation protection, and exposure to global food commodity trends may benefit from these ETFs.

CORN — Teucrium Corn Fund, for pure-play corn futures exposure and portfolio diversification.