Sean Toohey, a grains broker at the Chicago Board of Trade, who had hip replacement surgery last summer ,walks home from work Monday, Feb. 11, 2013, in Chicago. Routine hip replacement surgery on a healthy patient may cost as little as $11,000 _ or up to nearly $126,000. Toohey said he has good health insurance that covered most of the costs, and it didn't occur to him to ask about price beforehand. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)
Grain futures drop, livestock trades lower
Published: 03:49:56 PM, Tue 12 February 2013 UTC
CHICAGO (AP) — Grains futures fell Tuesday on the Chicago Board of Trade.
Wheat for March delivery slid 9.50 cents to $7.32 a bushel; March corn fell 6 cents to $6.9625 a bushel; March oats dropped 3.25 cents to $3.7775 a bushel; while March soybeans lost 10.75 cents to $14.2075 a bushel.
Beef and pork futures closed lower on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.
April live cattle fell 0.40 cent to $1.2995 a pound; March feeder cattle fell 1.55 cent to $1.4325 a pound; April lean hogs fell 0.37 cent to 86 cents a pound.
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