Wheat for July delivery slid 6 cents to $4.3575 a bushel, while July corn
dropped 9.5 cents to $3.40 a bushel and oats for July delivery fell 2 cents
to $1.94 a bushel. July soybeans sank 20 cents to $9.35 a bushel.
Meanwhile, beef and pork futures also traded lower on the Chicago Mercantile
Exchange.
June live cattle lost 1.15 cents to 90.95 cents a pound. August feeder
cattle shed 0.8 cent to $1.0887 a pound, June lean hogs edged down 1.4 cents
to 79.05 cents a pound, and July pork bellies fell 1.05 cents to 98.95 cents
a pound.
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