DTN Closing Grain Comments    12/26 13:45
   Grains and Soybeans Relinquish Early Gains in Quiet, Holiday Trade

   With little in the way of fresh news, and in typical holiday-slowed futures
trade, corn, soybeans and for the most part wheat traded lower after an early
start, with beans and Chicago wheat weakest.

Dana Mantini
Senior Market Analyst

GENERAL COMMENTS:

   March corn closed down 1 cent per bushel at $4.50 and May  closed down 3/4
cent per bushel at $4.58 1/4 and January soybeans closed down 4 1/2 cents at
$10.58 3/4 and March soybeans were down 4 cents at $10.72 1/2. March KC wheat
closed down 1/2 cent at $5.33 1/2, March Chicago wheat was down 2 3/4 cents at
$5.19 and MIAX March Minneapolis wheat was down 0.01 cents at $5.7925.