Wheat for March delivery rose 30 cents, the daily market limit permitted by the exchange, to close at $9.215 a bushel; March corn added 5.25 cents to $4.1725 a bushel; March oats edged up 1.25 cents to $2.8025 a bushel; January soybeans jumped 21 cents to $11.1975 a bushel.

Beef futures finished mixed, and pork futures increased on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.

February live cattle rose 0.58 cent to 96.75 cents a pound; January feeder cattle fell 0.4 cent to $1.0595 a pound; February lean hogs rose 0.5 cent to 61.7 cents a pound; February pork bellies rose 1.07 cents to 91.32 cents a pound.