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The major reason why you should invest in a Wheat ETF is, wheat is one of the most popular cereal commodity grown into the Global. It is only comparable to rice and maize in its quantity and more than 6000000 tons are harvested every year .

The only wheat only ETF that I know is Teucrium Wheat Fund. This ETF is the only one that tracks the price of wheat. The other option of investing in a Wheat ETF is buying ETFs that have wheat plus other commodities in their basket. These include some of the big names in agricultural commodities etfs:-

• ADZ – PowerShares DB Agriculture Short ETN
• AGA – PowerShares DB Agriculture Double Short ETN
• AGF – PowerShares DB Agriculture Long ETN
• BARN – Global X Farming ETF
• CRBA – Jefferies TR/J CRB Global Agriculture Equity Index ETF
• DAD – PowerShares DB Agirculture Double Short ETF
• DAG – PowerShares DB Agriculture Double Long

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If you are looking into investing in an agricultural commodity ETF  you can select form the following list of agricultural etfs related to agriculture. These agricultural ETFs tend to reflect the performance of the agricultural sector. Some of the ETFs are long while others are short.

ADZ – PowerShares DB Agriculture Short ETN

AGA – PowerShares DB Agriculture Double Short ETN

AGF – PowerShares DB Agriculture Long ETN

BARN – Global X Farming ETF

COWL – Direxion Daily Agribusiness Bull 3x Shares ETF

COWS – Direxion Daily Agribusiness Bear 3x Shares ETF

CRBA – Jefferies TR/J CRB Global Agriculture Equity Index ETF

DAD – PowerShares DB Agirculture Double Short ETF

DAG – PowerShares DB Agriculture Double Long ETN

DBA – PowerShares DB Agriculture ETF

DIRT – iPath Pure Beta Agriculture ETN

MOO – Market Vectors Agribusiness ETF

BAL – iPath Dow Jones AIG Cotton TR Sub-Index ETN

CTNN – iPath Pure Beta Cotton ETN

 

CAFÉ – iPath Pure Beta Coffee ETN

JO – iPath DJ-UBS Coffee Total Return Sub-Index ETN

NIB – iPath DJ-UBS Cocoa Total Return Sub-Index ETN

CHOC – iPath Pure Beta Cocoa ETN

GRU – ELEMENTS MLCX Grains Index Total Return ETN

JJG – iPath DJ-UBS Grains Total Return Sub-Index ETN

WEET – iPath Pure Beta Grains ETN

WEAT – Teucrium Wheat Fund

The initials on the left are symbols of agricultural ETF / ETN

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There is a strong case for a higher corn prices in 2011. Heavy rain and flooding across the US will affect this years crop. Cargill, the world’s largest agricultural commodities trader, estimates that about 2.5m acres of corn have been lost. A decline in production can only mean more upward pressure on corn prices. Source FT Commodities News.

Even before the US flood corn prices were under upward pressure from the following factors.

1. Surging demand from emerging markets,
2. Rising consumption of the grain by the ethanol industry.
3. Rising global population in key consuming nations in Africa and Asia
4. droughts in other key producing regions.

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