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Organization and Operation (Nags) (Teucrium Natural Gas Fund [Member])
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2013
Teucrium Natural Gas Fund [Member]
 
Organization and Operation

Note 1 - Organization and Operation

 

Teucrium Natural Gas Fund (referred to herein as "NAGS," or the "Fund") is a commodity pool that is a series of Teucrium Commodity Trust ("Trust"), a Delaware statutory trust formed on September 11, 2009.  The Fund issues common units, called the "Shares," representing fractional undivided beneficial interests in the Fund. The Fund continuously offers Creation Baskets consisting of 50,000 Shares at their Net Asset Value ("NAV") to "Authorized Purchasers" through Foreside Fund Services, LLC, which is the distributor for the Fund (the "Distributor"). Authorized Purchasers sell such Shares, which are listed on the New York Stock Exchange ("NYSE") Arca under the symbol "NAGS," to the public at per-Share offering prices that reflect, among other factors, the trading price of the Shares on the NYSE Arca, the NAV of the Fund at the time the Authorized Purchaser purchased the Creation Baskets and the NAV at the time of the offer of the Shares to the public, the supply of and demand for Shares at the time of sale, and the liquidity of the markets for natural gas interests.  The Fund's Shares trade in the secondary market on the NYSE Arca at prices that are lower or higher than their NAV per Share.

 

The investment objective of the Fund is to have the daily changes in percentage terms of the Shares' NAV reflect the daily changes in percentage terms of a weighted average of the following:  the nearest to spot month March, April, October and November Henry Hub Natural Gas Futures Contracts traded on the New York Mercantile Exchange ("NYMEX"), weighted 25% equally in each contract month. (This weighted average of the four referenced Natural Gas Futures Contracts is referred to herein as the "NAGS Benchmark," and the four Natural Gas Futures Contracts that at any given time make up the Benchmark are referred to herein as the "NAGS Benchmark Component Futures Contracts.")

 

The Fund commenced investment operations on February 1, 2011 and has a fiscal year ending December 31. The Fund's sponsor is Teucrium Trading, LLC (the "Sponsor"). The Sponsor is responsible for the management of the Fund. The Sponsor is a member of the National Futures Association (the "NFA") and became a commodity pool operator registered with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (the "CFTC") effective November 10, 2009.

 

On October 22, 2010, the Fund's initial registration of 40,000,000 shares on Form S-1 was declared effective by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"). On February 1, 2011, the Fund listed its shares on the NYSE Arca under the ticker symbol "NAGS". On the day prior to that, the Fund issued 200,000 shares in exchange for $5,000,000 at NAGS' initial NAV of $25 per share. The Fund also commenced investment operations on February 1, 2011 by purchasing commodity futures contracts traded on the NYMEX. On December 31, 2010, the Fund had two shares outstanding which were owned by the Sponsor.