From Field to Portfolio: How Advisors Can Use Teucrium's Market Intelligence to navigate Agricultural ETFs

In volatile markets, even well-constructed portfolios can face unexpected challenges.

For advisors, the key isn’t just reacting to change; it’s staying close enough to market signals to anticipate it.

This is particularly relevant when allocating to commodities.

Agricultural markets move on a different rhythm than equities. Prices respond not to earnings calls, but to weather events, planting progress, global trade flows, futures curve shifts, and supply chain disruptions. These forces are dynamic, complex, and often difficult to monitor from a traditional portfolio management perspective.

That’s where agricultural ETFs can help.

Teucrium ETFs are designed to offer price exposure to agricultural futures, providing advisors with a way to access real asset strategies without the operational complexity of trading futures directly.

Here’s how these ETFs work, and what they could mean for your clients’ portfolios.

Why Informed Market Analysis Matters in Agricultural Allocations

Agricultural commodity markets don’t follow the same playbook as broad equity indices.

They’re shaped by a dynamic mix of seasonal patterns, weather events, and geopolitical developments. Crop forecasts evolve, global trade flows shift, and futures price curves adjust in real time.

This complexity presents both risk and opportunity.

Navigating it effectively requires context and discipline. Teucrium ETFs are built with the understanding that commodity markets are not static. Key factors such as USDA reports, export sales data, forward pricing signals, and global consumption trends can influence how a fund’s exposure is structured.

For advisors, bringing this level of insight into the portfolio conversation goes beyond diversification.

Teucrium’s Research Engine: From Field Reports to Fund Design

Teucrium’s ETFs are passively managed and track proprietary benchmarks designed with the realities of commodity markets in mind.

Each benchmark is constructed to reflect the unique characteristics of its underlying market and to help mitigate the performance drag often associated with roll yield, whether in contango or backwardation.

Rather than concentrating exposure in front-month contracts, these benchmarks typically include:

• The second-to-expire futures contract
• The third-to-expire contract
• A market-specific “anchor” month that reflects seasonal or structural patterns unique to each commodity
  

This structure supports a more balanced exposure across the futures curve and is intended to reduce the short-term distortions that can affect traditional single-month strategies.

For advisors, this design offers a rules-based approach to long-term agricultural futures exposure, backed by a clear methodology rather than active predictions.

By tracking benchmarks built with roll yield dynamics and market seasonality in mind, Teucrium ETFs aim to provide access to agricultural markets in a way that aligns with strategic portfolio construction.

Strategic Positioning: How Teucrium Responds to Market Shifts

Agricultural markets don’t move in lockstep.

That’s why Teucrium offers both single-commodity and multi-commodity ETFs, providing advisors with flexibility in how they structure real asset allocations.

TILL provides exposure to corn, wheat, soybean, and sugar futures contracts—generally in roughly equal weights. The fund is registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940 and issues a Form 1099 for tax reporting, offering a structure familiar to most investors.

Unlike traditional passive strategies, TILL incorporates discretion in how futures contracts are rolled. Ahead of each roll period, the portfolio managers evaluate the shape of each commodity’s futures curve and select the specific contracts they believe may offer the most favorable balance of cost, liquidity, and curve positioning for the fund. This active roll strategy is implemented within a rules-based allocation to maintain consistent exposure across the four commodities.

For advisors, TILL offers a diversified agricultural allocation within a familiar tax structure and an informed approach to futures contract management.

TAGS offers a multi-commodity allocation by holding a basket of Teucrium’s single-commodity ETFs. While TAGS provides broad exposure, the performance of the fund reflects the behavior of its underlying ETFs, each tracking a specific agricultural futures benchmark. As relative prices shift, so does the composite exposure through passive rebalancing and market movement.

For RIAs, this structure provides access to agricultural markets without the need to manage futures positions directly or monitor every USDA release.

Teucrium’s ETFs offer a transparent, passive solution for advisors looking to incorporate commodity exposure into diversified portfolios. TAGS is structured as a commodity pool registered under the Securities Act of 1933 and issues a Schedule K-1 for tax reporting.

Tools That Build Client Trust and Portfolio Transparency

Today’s clients want more than off-the-shelf allocations. They want to understand the rationale behind investment decisions. With Teucrium’s ETFs, advisors can clearly explain how each fund provides exposure to agricultural futures, what contracts it holds, and the market dynamics influencing its structure.

That level of transparency reinforces your role as an informed guide, not just a portfolio gatekeeper.

Just as important, it signals that you’re thinking beyond traditional stock-bond diversification by offering:

• Access to real assets tied to real-world economic drivers
• Institutional-style exposure without operational complexity
• A transparent solution that makes commodities easier to understand and allocate

In short, Teucrium serves as a specialized partner, providing the structure, research, and tools needed to integrate agricultural commodities into client portfolios confidently.

Explore Teucrium’s fund lineup or schedule a meeting with an investment strategist here.

Important Risks and Disclosures

The information provided is intended to provide a broad overview for discussion purposes. It is subject to change and should not be taken as financial, tax or investment advice. Teucrium Trading, LLC and Teucrium Investment Advisors, LLC make no offers to sell, solicitations to buy, or recommendations for any security, nor do they offer advisory services.

An investor should consider the investment objectives, risks, charges, and expenses of the Fund carefully before investing. The prospectus and, if available, the summary prospectus contain this and other information about the Fund.

This material must be preceded or accompanied by a prospectus. Please read the prospectus carefully before investing. To obtain a current prospectus visit:

Teucrium Agricultural Fund (TAGS): TAGS | Teucrium

Teucrium Agricultural Strategy No K-1 ETF (TILL): TILL | Teucrium

TAGS is a commodity pool regulated by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). It is an exchange-traded product (ETP), not a mutual fund or any other type of investment company as defined by the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, and is not subject to regulation under that Act. TAGS does not seek to track the spot price of corn, sugar, soybeans, or wheat.

TILL, is new and has a limited operating history. The Fund is a “non-diversified” investment company under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended and, therefore, may invest a greater percentage of assets in a particular security than a diversified fund. The Fund is a commodity pool regulated by the CFTC.

Commodities and futures generally are volatile and are not suitable for all investors.

Futures investing is highly speculative and involves a high degree of risk. An investor may lose all or substantially all of an investment. Investing in commodity interests subject each Fund to the risks of its related industry. These risks could result in large fluctuations in the price of a particular Fund's respective shares. Funds that focus on a single sector generally experience greater volatility. Futures may be affected by Backwardation: a market condition in which a futures price is lower in the distant delivery months than in the near delivery months. As a result, the fund may benefit because it would be selling more expensive contracts and buying less expensive ones on an ongoing basis; Contango: A condition in which distant delivery prices for futures exceed spot prices, often due to costs of storing and inuring the underlying commodity. Opposite of backwardation. As a result, the Fund’s total return may be lower than might otherwise be the case because it would be selling less expensive contracts and buying more expensive one. For further discussion of these and additional risks associated with an investment in the Funds please read the respective Fund Prospectus before investing.

Teucrium Investment Advisors, LLC is an investment adviser in Burlington, Vermont and is a wholly owned limited liability company of Teucrium Trading, LLC. Teucrium Investment Advisors, LLC is registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Registration of an investment adviser does not imply any specific level of skill or training and does not constitute an endorsement of the firm by the Commission. Teucrium Investment Advisors, LLC only transacts business in states in which it is properly registered or is excluded or exempted from registration.

Diversification does not ensure a profit or protect against loss.

Teucrium Trading, LLC is the Sponsor for TAGS. PINE Distributors LLC is the Marketing Agent for TAGS, and is not affiliated with Teucrium Investment Advisors, LLC and Teucrium Trading, LLC.

PINE Distributors LLC is the distributor for the Teucrium Agricultural Strategy No K-1 ETF. PINE Distributors LLC is not affiliated with Teucrium Trading, LLC and Teucrium Investment Advisors, LLC.

Past performance is not indicative of future results. Teucrium disclaims any liability for any actions taken based on the information provided in this document.

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