Wheat for May delivery jumped 58 cents to $11.63 a bushel; March corn rose 22.5 cents to $5.56 a bushel; March oats slipped 8.5 cents to $3.9075 a bushel; May soybeans fell 2.25 cents to $14.065 a bushel.
Beef and pork futures traded lower on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.
April live cattle lost 0.77 cent to 89.75 cents a pound; March feeder cattle dropped 0.40 cent to $1.002 a pound; April lean hogs shed 0.13 cent to 57.72 cents a pound; March pork bellies declined 3 cents to 78.50 cents a pound.
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