Agriculture ETF-List of Agriculture ETF: Trade Agriculture through Agriculture Exchange Traded Funds
This article contains list of Agriculture ETF - Agriculture based Exchange Traded Funds. Also covered are the historical performance, benefits, advantages, disadvantages, opportunities and risks involved in trading Agriculture ETF.

There are plenty of Agriculture ETF available for trading and investments. They are here categorized in the following segments - viz Long Agriculture ETF, Short Agriculture ETF and Leveraged Agriculture ETF. Then there are other segments which also fall under the Agriculture ETF category, like Crop specific Agriculture ETF or say ETF focussed on Livestocks. Although the later two categories may be debatable to be covered under the Agriculture ETF section, we are providing them here for the sake of investors and traders who are keen on taking a shot at those specific sectors thorugh those ETFs.

Agriculture ETF List: Review, Analysis, Opinion and Details about Agriculture Exchange Traded Funds

Here is the list of Agriculture ETF as per the categories:

List of Long Agriculture ETF

ELEMENTS MLCX Grains Index-Total Return ETN GRU:
The first on the list of Long Agriculture ETF's is the ELEMENTS MLCX Grains Index-Total Return ETN. This ETN tracks the underlying index called MLCX Grains Index.The Index is composed of futures contracts on physical commodities and is rolling in nature.
It has a expense ratio of 0.75% which appears to be a bit high. It trades on NYSE Arca.
ELEMENTS Rogers International Commodity Index - Agriculture Total Return ETN RJA:
This is another ETN from Elements. This is focussed on Agriculture Commodities and tracks the underlying index called the Rogers International Commodity Index - Agriculture Total Return. This index is unique because it tracks the agriculture balance consumption worldwide but specific to developed and developing countries and on the basis of that it assigns the weightages to its compponents.It contains everything from the agriculture sector - rubber, soya, Orange juice, Cotton, Coffee, etc., etc. and investors can be sure that all kinds of agri commodities are covered by this index.
Trading with symbol RJA on NYSE ARca exchange, this ETN has an expense ratio of 0.75%.

UBS E-TRACS UBS Bloomberg CMCI Agriculture Total Return ETN UAG:
UBS E-TRACS UBS Bloomberg CMCI Agriculture Total Return ETN is from UBS and it tracks the unerlying index called the UBS Bloomberg CMCI Agriculture Total Return Index. This Agri ETN Index constituents similar to that of RJA index, and it includes everything from Wheat to Coffee to other agri commodities. What differs is the weightages - As per the latest info available, Corn & SOyabean had the highest weightage, followed by wheat and Sugar.
Trading with ticker symbol UAG on NYSE Arca, this ETN has comparatively lower expense ratio of just 0.55%.

UBS E-TRACS UBS Bloomberg CMCI Food Total Return ETN FUD:
Another ETN from UBS, but specific to Food based Agri commodities and prodcuts. It tracks the underlying Food index called the UBS Bloomberg CMCI Food Total Return Index which includes all the usual food based commodities like wheat, rice, coffee, soya, etc. Along with that, this index also contains Livestocks, Edible oils, etc.
With an expense ratio of 0.65% annually, this ETN trades on NYSE Arca with ticker FUD.

iPath Dow Jones-UBS Agriculture Total Return Sub-Index ETN JJA:
This one is from the house of iPath ETN's - it tracks the underlying index called the Dow Jones-UBS Agriculture Subindex Total Return Index. As per the latest available info, the maximum weightage is on Soya bean & Corn followed by Wheat and coffee.
Yearly fee is a bit high - 0.75% - trades with ticker symbol JJA on NYSE Arca.

Similar to this is another ETN from IPath called the iPath Dow Jones-UBS Grains Subindex Total Return ETN , it trades with symbol JJG, where G indicates focus on Grains.

PowerShares DB Agriculture Long ETN AGF:
Powershares cannot stay behind when it comes to ETF's and ETN's. So here is one LONG ETF from Powershares which is in the Agriculture sector. It tracks the performance of the underlying index called the Deutsche Bank Liquid Commodity Index — Optimum Yield Agriculture. This index has underlyings as the futures contracts relating to corn, wheat, soybeans and sugar.
Have a high expense rato of 0.75% trades on NYSE Arca with ticker symbol AGF.
Here is a comparative chart of the recent performance of all the above mentioned ETF/ETN based on Agricultur (Sourced as a screen shot from Google Finance). Please click on the image to see an enlarged version.
Related: Leveraged Agriculture ETF-List of Leveraged Agriculture ETF

As you can see, all the funds have given similar performance.
There are other ETF on Agriculture from PowerShares: PowerShares DB Agriculture Fund (DBA) and PowerShares Global Agriculture Portfolio ETF (PAGG)