Wheat slides as rain comes to Plains states

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Rainfall in Kansas and other growing areas is helping send the price of wheat sharply lower.

The actively traded July contract for wheat lost 19 cents, or 2.7 percent, to settle at $6.90 a bushel Wednesday.

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