Agriculture Stocks and Funds

Select list of agriculture stocks, funds, indexes and ETFs.

Agriculture Funds and ETFs

AGF - Agriculture ETN. The investment seeks to replicate as closely as possible, before fees and expenses, the price and yield performance of the Deutsche Bank Liquid Commodity index - Optimum Yield Agriculture. The fund is a senior unsecured obligation. The index is composed of roughly equal percentages of corn, wheat, soybean, and sugar futures contracts. 0.75% expense ratio.

BARN - Farming ETF.

CORN - Corn fund ETF. Tracks corn futures. The underlying holdings of this fund consist of corn futures contracts traded on the CBOT.

COW - Livestock ETN.

DBA - Agriculture Fund (ETF). The investment seeks to track the price and yield performance, before fees and expenses, of the Deutsche Bank Liquid Commodity Index - Optimum Yield Agriculture Excess Return. The index is a rules-based index composed of futures contracts on some of the most liquid and widely traded agricultural commodities such as corn, wheat, soy beans and sugar. 0.85% expense ratio.

FUD - Food ETN. The investment seeks to track the price and performance yield, before fees and expenses, of the UBS Bloomberg CMCI Food Total Return index. 0.65% expense ratio.

GRU - Grains ETN.

JJA - Agriculture ETN. The investment seeks results that correspond generally to the price and yield performance, before fees and expenses, of the Dow Jones-UBS Agriculture Total Return Sub-Index. The note is designed to reflect the performance of agricultural commodities. The index is composed of seven futures contracts: soybeans, corn, wheat, cotton, soybean oil, coffee and sugar. 0.75% expense ratio.

JJG - Grains ETN.

MOO - Agribusiness ETF. The investment seeks to replicate as closely as possible, before fees and expenses, the price and yield performance of the DAXglobal Agribusiness Index. Stocks are held instead of futures contracts. About 50% in US. 0.55% expense ratio.

PAGG - Global Agriculture ETF. The investment seeks to replicate, net of expenses, the NASDAQ OMX Global Agriculture index. The fund normally invests at least 90% of assets in the securities and ADRs and GDRs based on the securities that comprise the underlying index. Hold stocks instead of investing in futures contracts. About 29% in U.S. 0.75% expense ratio.

UAG - Agriculture ETN. The investment seeks to track the price and performance yield, before fees and expenses, of the UBS Bloomberg CMCI Agriculture Total Return index. The fund is designed to be representative of the entire liquid forward curve of each commodity in the index. The index measures the collateralized returns from a diversified basket of agriculture futures contracts. It is comprised of the 12 agriculture futures contracts included in the CMCI with three target maturities for each individual commodity. 0.65% expense ratio.

UBC - Livestock ETN.

Agriculture Indexes

DAXglobal Agribusiness Index - The Index provides exposure to publicly traded companies worldwide that derive at least 50% of their revenues from the business of agriculture.

OMX Global Agriculture Index - which is designed to measure the overall performance of globally traded securities of the largest and most liquid companies involved in agriculture and farming-related activities.

Resources

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