Document Headings

                    Document headings vary by document type but may contain                    the following:                  
                -                       the agency or agencies that issued and signed a document                    
                -                       the number of the CFR title and the number of each part                      the document amends, proposes to amend, or is directly                      related to                    
                -                       the agency docket number / agency internal file number                    
                -                       the RIN which identifies each regulatory action listed in                      the Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory                      Actions                    

                    See the                                          Document Drafting Handbook                                        for more details.                  

###### Securities and Exchange Commission

          - [Release No. 34-62213; File No. SR-NYSEArca-2010-22]

## I. Introduction

                    On March 31, 2010, NYSE Arca, Inc. (“Exchange” or “NYSE Arca”) filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“Commission”), pursuant to Section 19(b)(1) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (“Act”) [1]                                          and Rule 19b-4 thereunder,[2]                                          a proposed rule change to list and trade shares of the Teucrium Corn Fund under NYSE Arca Equities Rule 8.200. The proposed rule change was published for comment in the                     **Federal Register**                     on April 29, 2010.[3]                                          The Commission received no comments on the proposal. This order grants approval of the proposed rule change.                

## II. Description of the Proposal

                    The Exchange proposes to list and trade shares (“Shares”) of the Teucrium Corn Fund (“Fund”) pursuant to NYSE Arca Equities Rule 8.200. NYSE Arca Equities Rule 8.200, Commentary .02, permits the trading of Trust Issued Receipts either by listing or pursuant to unlisted trading privileges.[4] 

                    The Shares represent beneficial ownership interests in the Fund, which is a commodity pool that is a series of the Teucrium Commodity Trust (“Trust”), a Delaware statutory trust.[5]                                          The Fund is managed and controlled by Teucrium Trading, LLC (“Sponsor”). The Sponsor is a Delaware limited liability company that is registered as a commodity pool operator with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”) and is a member of the National Futures Association.                

                    The investment objective of the Fund is to have the daily changes in percentage terms of the Fund's net asset value (“NAV”) per Share reflect the daily changes in percentage terms of a weighted average of the closing settlement prices for three futures contracts for corn (“Corn Futures Contracts”) that are traded on the Chicago Board of Trade (“CBOT”): (1) The second-to-expire CBOT Corn Futures Contract, weighted 35%; (2) the third-to-expire CBOT Corn Futures Contract, weighted 30%; and (3) the CBOT Corn Futures Contract expiring in the December following the expiration month of the third-to-expire contract, weighted 35%, less the Fund's expenses. This weighted average of the three referenced Corn Futures Contracts is referred to herein as the “Benchmark,” and the three Corn Futures Contracts that at any given time make up the Benchmark are referred to herein as the “Benchmark Component Futures Contracts.” [6] 

                    The Fund seeks to achieve its investment objective by investing under normal market conditions in Benchmark Component Futures Contracts or, in certain circumstances, in other Corn Futures Contracts traded on CBOT or on foreign exchanges.[7]                                          In addition, and to                           ( print page 32829)                        a limited extent, the Fund also may invest in corn-based swap agreements that are cleared through CBOT or its affiliated provider of clearing services (“Cleared Corn Swaps”) in furtherance of the Fund's investment objective. Once position limits in Corn Futures Contracts are applicable,[8]                                          the Fund's intention is to invest first in Cleared Corn Swaps to the extent permitted by the position limits applicable to Cleared Corn Swaps and appropriate in light of the liquidity in the Cleared Corn Swap market, and then in contracts and instruments such as cash-settled options on Corn Futures Contracts and forward contracts, swaps other than Cleared Corn Swaps, and other over-the-counter transactions that are based on the price of corn and Corn Futures Contracts (collectively, “Other Corn Interests,” and together with Corn Futures Contracts and Cleared Corn Swaps, “Corn Interests”). By utilizing certain or all of these investments, the Sponsor will endeavor to cause the Fund's performance, before taking Fund expenses and any interest income from the cash, cash equivalents, and Treasury Securities (as defined herein) held by the Fund into account, to closely track that of the Benchmark.                

The Fund's positions in Corn Interests will be changed, or “rolled,” on a regular basis in order to track the changing nature of the Benchmark. For example, five times a year (on the date on which a Corn Futures Contract expires), the second-to-expire Corn Futures Contract will become the next-to-expire Corn Futures Contract and will no longer be a Benchmark Component Futures Contract, and the Fund's investments will have to be changed accordingly. In order that the Fund's trading does not cause unwanted market movements and to make it more difficult for third parties to profit by trading based on such expected market movements, the Fund's investments typically will not be rolled entirely on that day, but rather will typically be rolled over a period of several days.

                    The Fund will invest in Corn Interests to the fullest extent possible without being leveraged or unable to satisfy its expected current or potential margin or collateral obligations with respect to its investments in Corn Interests.[9]                                          After fulfilling such margin and collateral requirements, the Fund will invest the remainder of its proceeds from the sale of baskets in short-term obligations of the United States government (“Treasury Securities”) or cash equivalents, and/or merely hold such assets in cash (generally in interest-bearing accounts). Therefore, the focus of the Sponsor in managing the Fund is investing in Corn Interests and in Treasury Securities, cash, and/or cash equivalents. The Fund will earn interest income from the Treasury Securities and/or cash equivalents that it purchases and on the cash it holds through the Fund's custodian, the Bank of New York Mellon.                

                    The Sponsor will employ a “neutral” investment strategy intended to track the changes in the Benchmark regardless of whether the Benchmark goes up or goes down and will endeavor to place the Fund's trades in Corn Interests and otherwise manage the Fund's investments so that the Fund's average daily tracking error against the Benchmark will be less than 10 percent over any period of 30 trading days. More specifically, the Sponsor will endeavor to manage the Fund so that A will be within plus/minus 10 percent of B, where A is the average daily change in the Fund's NAV for any period of 30 successive valuation days,                     *i.e.,*                     any trading day as of which the Fund calculates its NAV, and B is the average daily change in the Benchmark over the same period.                

The Sponsor believes that market arbitrage opportunities will cause the Fund's Share price on the NYSE Arca to closely track the Fund's NAV per share and that the net effect of this expected relationship and the expected relationship between the Fund's NAV and the Benchmark will be that the changes in the price of the Fund's Shares on NYSE Arca will closely track, in percentage terms, changes in the Benchmark, less the Fund's expenses.

The CFTC and U.S. designated contract markets such as CBOT may establish position limits on the maximum net long or net short futures contracts in commodity interests that any person or group of persons under common trading control (other than as a hedge) may hold, own, or control. For example, the current position limits for investments at any one time in the Corn Futures Contracts traded on CBOT are 600 spot month contracts, 13,500 contracts expiring in any other single month, and 22,000 total for all months. These position limits are fixed ceilings that the Fund would not be able to exceed without specific CFTC authorization.

In addition to position limits, the futures exchanges set daily price fluctuation limits on futures contracts. The daily price fluctuation limit establishes the maximum amount that the price of futures contracts may vary either up or down from the previous day's settlement price. Once the daily price fluctuation limit has been reached in a particular futures contract, no trades may be made at a price beyond that limit.

The Fund does not intend to limit the size of the offering and will attempt to utilize substantially all of its proceeds to purchase Corn Interests. If the Fund encounters position limits, accountability levels, or price fluctuation limits for Corn Futures Contracts on CBOT, it may then, if permitted under applicable regulatory requirements, purchase Other Corn Interests and/or Corn Futures Contracts listed on foreign exchanges. The Corn Futures Contracts available on such foreign exchanges may have different underlying sizes, deliveries, and prices. In addition, the Corn Futures Contracts available on these exchanges may be subject to their own position limits and accountability levels. In certain circumstances, however, position limits could force the Fund to limit the number of creation baskets that it sells.

                    The Exchange represents that the Fund will meet the initial and continued listing requirements applicable to Trust Issued Receipts in NYSE Arca Equities Rule 8.200 and Commentary .02 thereto. With respect to application of Rule 10A-3 under the Act,[10]                                          the Trust will rely on the exception contained in Rule 10A-3(c)(7).[11]                                          A minimum of 100,000 Shares will be outstanding as of the start of trading on the Exchange.                

                    Additional details regarding the trading policies of the Fund, creations and redemptions of the Shares, Corn Interests and other aspects of the corn and Corn Interest markets, investment risks, Benchmark performance, NAV calculation, the dissemination and availability of information about the underlying assets, trading halts, applicable trading rules, surveillance, and the Information Bulletin, among other things, can be found in the Notice                           ( print page 32830)                        and/or the Registration Statement, as applicable.[12] 

## III. Discussion and Commission's Findings

                    After careful consideration, the Commission finds that the proposed rule change to list and trade the Shares of the Fund is consistent with the requirements of the Act and the rules and regulations thereunder applicable to a national securities exchange.[13]                                          In particular, the Commission finds that the proposed rule change is consistent with the requirements of Section 6(b)(5) of the Act,[14]                                          which requires, among other things, that the Exchange's rules be designed to prevent fraudulent and manipulative acts and practices, to promote just and equitable principles of trade, to foster cooperation and coordination with persons engaged in facilitating transactions in securities, and to remove impediments to and perfect the mechanism of a free and open market and a national market system.                

                    The Commission finds that the proposal to list and trade the Shares on the Exchange is also consistent with Section 11A(a)(1)(C)(iii) of the Act,[15]                                          which sets forth Congress' finding that it is in the public interest and appropriate for the protection of investors and the maintenance of fair and orderly markets to assure the availability to brokers, dealers, and investors of information with respect to quotations for, and transactions in, securities. Quotation and last-sale information regarding the Shares will be disseminated through the facilities of the Consolidated Tape Association (“CTA”), and the Benchmark will be disseminated by one or more major market data vendors every 15 seconds during the NYSE Arca Core Trading Session of 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Eastern Time (“E.T.”). In addition, the Indicative Trust Value (“ITV”) will be disseminated on a per-Share basis by one or more major market data vendors every 15 seconds during the NYSE Arca Core Trading Session.[16]                                          The Fund will provide Web site disclosure of portfolio holdings daily and will include, as applicable, the names, quantity, price, and market value of Financial Instruments [17]                                          and the characteristics of such instruments and cash equivalents, and amount of cash held in the portfolio of the Fund. The closing price and settlement prices of the Corn Futures Contracts are readily available from CBOT, automated quotation systems, published or other public sources, or on-line information services such as Bloomberg or Reuters, and the spot price of corn also is available on a 24-hour basis from major market data vendors. The NAV for the Fund will be calculated by the Administrator once a day and will be disseminated daily to all market participants at the same time, and the Web site for the Fund (                    *http://www.teucriumcornfund.com*) and/or the Exchange will contain the prospectus and additional data relating to NAV and other applicable quantitative information.                

                    The Commission further believes that the proposal to list and trade the Shares is reasonably designed to promote fair disclosure of information that may be necessary to price the Shares appropriately and to prevent trading when a reasonable degree of transparency cannot be assured. If the Exchange becomes aware that the NAV with respect to the Shares is not disseminated to all market participants at the same time, it will halt trading in the Shares until such time as the NAV is available to all market participants. Further, the Exchange represents that it may halt trading during the day in which an interruption to the dissemination of the ITV or the value of the underlying futures contracts occurs. If the interruption to the dissemination of the ITV or the value of the underlying futures contracts persists past the trading day in which it occurred, the Exchange will halt trading no later than the beginning of the trading day following the interruption. In addition, the Web site disclosure of the portfolio composition of the Fund will occur at the same time as the disclosure by the Sponsor of the portfolio composition to Authorized Purchasers (as defined in the Registration Statement) so that all market participants are provided portfolio composition information at the same time. Therefore, the same portfolio information will be provided on the public Web site as well as in electronic files provided to Authorized Purchasers. Accordingly, each investor will have access to the current portfolio composition of the Fund through the Fund's Web site. Lastly, the trading of the Shares will be subject to NYSE Arca Equities Rule 8.200, Commentary .02(e), which sets forth certain restrictions on ETP Holders[18]                                          acting as registered Market Makers[19]                                          in Trust Issued Receipts to facilitate surveillance.                

The Exchange has represented that the Shares are deemed equity securities subject to the Exchange's rules governing the trading of equity securities. In support of this proposal, the Exchange has made representations, including the following:

(1) The Fund will meet the initial and continued listing requirements applicable to Trust Issued Receipts in NYSE Arca Equities Rule 8.200 and Commentary .02 thereto.

(2) The Exchange has appropriate rules to facilitate transactions in the Shares during all trading sessions.

(3) The Exchange's surveillance procedures are adequate to properly monitor Exchange trading of the Shares in all trading sessions and to deter and detect violations of Exchange rules and applicable Federal securities laws.

(4) With respect to Fund assets traded on exchanges, not more than 10% of the weight of such assets in the aggregate shall consist of components whose principal trading market is not a member of the Intermarket Surveillance Group or is a market with which the Exchange does not have a comprehensive surveillance sharing agreement.

                    (5) Prior to the commencement of trading, the Exchange will inform its ETP Holders in an Information Bulletin of the special characteristics and risks associated with trading the Shares. Specifically, the Information Bulletin will discuss the following: (a) The risks involved in trading the Shares during the Opening and Late Trading Sessions when an updated ITV will not be calculated or publicly disseminated; (b) the procedures for purchases and redemptions of Shares (and that Shares are not individually redeemable); (c) NYSE Arca Equities Rule 9.2(a), which imposes a duty of due diligence on its ETP Holders to learn the essential facts relating to every customer prior to trading the Shares; (d) how information regarding the ITV is disseminated; (e) the requirement that ETP Holders deliver a prospectus to investors purchasing newly issued Shares prior to or concurrently with the confirmation of                           ( print page 32831)                        a transaction; and (f) trading information.                

(6) A minimum of 100,000 Shares will be outstanding as of the start of trading on the Exchange.

                    (7) With respect to the application of Rule 10A-3 under the Act, the Trust will rely on the exception contained in Rule 10A-3(c)(7).[20] 

                    This approval order is based on the Exchange's representations.[21] 

For the foregoing reasons, the Commission finds that the proposed rule change is consistent with the Act and the rules and regulations thereunder applicable to a national securities exchange.

## IV. Conclusion

*It is therefore ordered,*                     pursuant to Section 19(b)(2) of the Act,[22]                                          that the proposed rule change (SR-NYSEArca-2010-22) be, and it hereby is, approved.                

                        For the Commission, by the Division of Trading and Markets, pursuant to delegated authority.[23] 

Elizabeth M. Murphy,

Secretary.

# Footnotes

1.                             15 U.S.C. 78s(b)(1).                    
        Back to Citation      

2.                             17 CFR 240.19b-4.                    
        Back to Citation      

3.                                                     *See*                         Securities Exchange Act Release No. 61954 (April 21, 2010), 75 FR 22663 (“Notice”).                    
        Back to Citation      

4.                             Commentary .02 to NYSE Arca Equities Rule 8.200 applies to Trust Issued Receipts that invest in “Financial Instruments.” The term “Financial Instruments,” as defined in Commentary .02(b)(4) to NYSE Arca Equities Rule 8.200, means any combination of investments, including cash; securities; options on securities and indices; futures contracts; options on futures contracts; forward contracts; equity caps, collars and floors; and swap agreements.                    
        Back to Citation      

5.                                                     *See*                         Amendment No. 3 to the Registration Statement on Form S-1 for the Trust, dated March 29, 2010 (File No. 333-162033) (“Registration Statement”).                    
        Back to Citation      

6.                             Corn Futures Contracts traded on CBOT expire on a specified day in five different months: March, May, July, September, and December. In terms of the Benchmark, in June of a given year, the next-to-expire or “spot month” Corn Futures Contract will expire in July of that year, and the Benchmark Component Futures Contracts will be the contracts expiring in September of that year (the second-to-expire contract), December of that year (the third-to-expire contract), and December of the following year. In November of a given year, the Benchmark Component Futures Contracts will be the contracts expiring in March, May, and December of the following year.                    
        Back to Citation      

7.                             Corn futures volume on CBOT for 2008 and 2009 (through November 30, 2009) was 59,934,739 contracts and 47,754,866 contracts, respectively. As of March 16, 2010, CBOT open interest for corn futures was 1,118,103 contracts, and open interest for near-month futures was 447,554 contracts. The                                                 contract price was $18,337.50 ($3.6675 per bushel and 5,000 bushels per contract). The approximate value of all outstanding contracts was $20.5 billion. The position limits for all months is 22,000 contracts, and the total value of contracts if position limits were reached would be approximately $403.5 million (based on the $18,337.50 contract price). As of March 16, 2010, open interest in corn swaps cleared on CBOT was approximately 2,100 contracts, with an approximate value of $38.5 million. Corn futures and options are also traded on NYSE Liffe, and corn futures are traded on the Tokyo Grain Exchange.                    
        Back to Citation      

8.                                                     *See infra*                         note 21.                    
        Back to Citation      

9.                             The Sponsor represents that the Fund will invest in Corn Interests in a manner consistent with the Fund's investment objective and not to achieve additional leverage.                    
        Back to Citation      

10.                             17 CFR 240.10A-3.                    
        Back to Citation      

11.                             17 CFR 240.10A-3(c)(7).                    
        Back to Citation      

12.                                                     *See supra*                         notes 3 and 5.                    
        Back to Citation      

13.                             In approving this proposed rule change, the Commission notes that it has considered the proposed rule's impact on efficiency, competition, and capital formation.                         *See*15 U.S.C. 78c(f).                    
        Back to Citation      

14.                             15 U.S.C. 78f(b)(5).                    
        Back to Citation      

15.                             15 U.S.C. 78k-1(a)(1)(C)(iii).                    
        Back to Citation      

16.                             The normal trading hours for Corn Futures Contracts on CBOT are 10:30 a.m. to 2:15 p.m. E.T. The ITV will not be updated, and, therefore, a static ITV will be disseminated, between the close of trading on CBOT of Corn Futures Contracts and the close of the NYSE Arca Core Trading Session. The value of a Share may be influenced by non-concurrent trading hours between NYSE Arca and CBOT when the Shares are traded on NYSE Arca after normal trading hours of Corn Futures Contracts on CBOT.                    
        Back to Citation      

17.                                                     *See supra*                         note 4.                    
        Back to Citation      

18.                                                     *See*                         NYSE Arca Equities Rule 1.1(n) (defining ETP Holder).                    
        Back to Citation      

19.                                                     *See*                         NYSE Arca Equities Rule 1.1(u) (defining Market Maker).                    
        Back to Citation      

20.                                                     *See supra*                         notes 10 and 11 and accompanying text.                    
        Back to Citation      

21.                             The Commission notes that it does not regulate the market for the futures in which the Fund plans to take positions, which is the responsibility of the CFTC. The CFTC has the authority to set limits on the positions that any person may take in futures on commodities. These limits may be directly set by the CFTC, or by the markets on which the futures are traded. The Commission has no role in establishing position limits on futures in commodities, even though such limits could impact a commodity-based exchange-traded product that is under the jurisdiction of the Commission.                    
        Back to Citation      

22.                             15 U.S.C. 78f(b)(2).                    
        Back to Citation      

23.                                 17 CFR 200.30-3(a)(12).                        
        Back to Citation      

[FR Doc. 2010-13826 Filed 6-8-10; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 8010-01-P