Agriculture, livestock futures trade mixed

[February 12, 2010]    CHICAGO (AP) -- Agriculture futures were mixed Thursday on the Chicago Board of Trade.

Wheat for March delivery dropped 3.25 cents to $4.935 a bushel; March corn added 1.5 cents to $3.6325 a bushel; March oats were unchanged at $2.3225 a bushel; and March soybeans gained 5.5 cents to $9.43 a bushel.

Meanwhile, livestock futures also traded mixed on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.

April live cattle were unchanged at 89.40 cents a pound; March feeder cattle rose 0.25 cent to 100.50 cents a pound; April lean hogs dropped 0.50 cent to 67.67 cents a pound; and March pork bellies traded up 0.50 cent to 85 cents a pound.

[Associated Press]

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