Grain futures fall, livestock prices mostly up

[January 07, 2011]  CHICAGO (AP) -- Grains futures traded mixed Thursday on the Chicago Board of Trade.

Wheat for March delivery fell 19.25 cents to $7.89 a bushel; March corn fell 17.25 cents to $6.02 a bushel; March oats fell 11.50 cents to $3.7775 a bushel; while soybeans for March delivery dropped 15.50 cents to $13.78 a bushel.

Beef and pork were either up or unchanged on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.

February live cattle added 0.10 cent to $1.0672 a pound; March feeder cattle gained 67 cent at $1.2307 a pound; February lean hogs added 1.75 cent to 79.77 cents a pound; while February pork bellies were unchanged at $1.06 a pound.

[Associated Press]

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