date:Mar 11, 2014
t to $6.49-1/2 a bushel, having closed up 1.24 percent on Friday when prices marked a high of $6.63 a bushel - their strongest since early December. Markets are readying for next USDA report, which analysts expect to show a lowering of the agency's estimates for soy crops in Brazil and Argentina following poor crop weather in recent weeks.
Wheat and corn draw support from jitters about political instability in Ukraine, a major exporter of both grains. Canada's government took the drastic step