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Agriculture Futures Mostly Fall on CBOT

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[April 11, 2008]  CHICAGO (AP) -- Agriculture futures mostly traded lower Thursday on the Chicago Board of Trade.

Wheat for May delivery fell 11 cents to $9.23 a bushel; May corn dropped 10.75 cents to $5.9425 a bushel; May oats lost 1.75 cents to $3.8725 a bushel; May soybeans rose 43 cents to $13.56 a bushel.

Beef futures traded higher and pork futures traded lower on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.

April live cattle rose 1.70 cents to 88.47 cents a pound; April feeder cattle added 0.85 cent to 99.10 a pound; April lean hogs lost 0.25 cent to 59.17 cents a pound; May pork bellies slipped 1.23 cents to 71.37 cents a pound.

[Associated Press]

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