CFTC Agricultural Advisory Committee Agenda Includes 24/7 Trading and Risk Tools

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission released the agenda for the Agricultural Advisory Committee’s first meeting of 2026, scheduled for July 29 at CFTC headquarters in Washington.

The agenda includes Basel III, risk-management tools for agricultural end users, 24/7 trading and emerging markets, and recent CFTC activity in the agricultural industry. The meeting is open to the public and is expected to be streamed on CFTC.gov.

The committee was created to advise the Commission on issues involving agricultural commodity futures and options and to support communication between the regulator, agricultural firms and agriculture-related organizations.

Why it matters

Agricultural futures and options are core hedging markets, but they are also actively traded by funds, CTAs, commodity brokers and retail-access platforms. Any discussion of 24/7 trading, margin treatment, banking rules or risk-management access can affect liquidity, spread behavior and the way brokers support commodity clients.

For traders, the agenda matters because it puts agricultural markets inside the same continuous-trading and market-resilience debate now affecting energy, crypto-linked derivatives and event contracts.

What to watch next

Watch the July 29 meeting materials and webcast for comments from exchanges, FCMs and agricultural end users. The key question is whether the CFTC receives enough market-specific evidence to treat agricultural contracts differently from other products as it evaluates expanded trading hours.