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Grain lower livestock higher

By WTOP Staff

CHICAGO (AP) — Grain futures were lower Wednesday in early trading on the Chicago Board of Trade.

Wheat for Sept delivery was 3.75 cents lower at $5.5250 a bushel; Sept corn was 2.50 cents lower at $3.9575 a bushel; Dec oats were unchanged at $3.4050 a bushel; while Nov soybeans was 1.25 cents lower at $11.16 a bushel.

Beef and pork were higher on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.

Aug live cattle was .73 cent higher at $1.5425 a pound; Aug feeder cattle was 1.10 cents higher at 2.17 a pound; Aug lean hogs gained .65 cent to $1.3050 a pound.

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