... got a growing demand for edible oils with their growing population and the Olympics coming up," said Elaine Kub, grains analyst with DTN. Soybeans for May delivery jumped 9.25 cents to fetch $14.34 a bushel on the Chicago Board of Trade ...

... bushels per acre of corn were destroyed, "and everybody is reporting that this year is worse," said Jason Ward, grains analyst at North Star Commodity in Minneapolis. The most recent floods have sent corn prices soaring past $7 a bushel for ...

... conventional crops, while a second company advised its suppliers to start separately storing conventional and biotech grain. Analysts feared the moves would lead to price cuts on biotech grain, if not this fall then next year, and a shortage of ...