Grain and bean prices slump on better weather

Better growing conditions for grains and beans pushed down futures prices for corn, wheat and soybeans Thursday.

Corn slumped seven cents, or 1.6 percent, to close at $4.49 a bushel. Other contracts had similar declines.

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