Linus Rothermich took a trucking company owner at her word when she promised to later pay him for nearly $200,000 in grain delivered to feedlots and storage elevators across Missouri.

The federal government’s estimate of North Dakota’s 2008 corn production includes millions of bushels of grain that are covered by snow and might never end up in farmers’ bins.

Grain prices gave up some of their earlier gains Monday after a government report forecast a decline in corn and soybean production this year.

Gold and other precious metals prices rose Monday as bargain-hunting investors trickled back into the beaten-down commodities market. Grain prices also rose, while energy futures fell.

Grain prices fell sharply Tuesday after Wall Street’s failure to extend the previous day’s massive rally prompted investors to pull money out of commodities.

Two young brothers died when they were sucked beneath a load of grain that was being unloaded from a trailer western Canada, police said Thursday.

Across the country, from grain elevator to grain elevator, golden wheat and corn are piled in towering mounds, waiting for a rail car to haul them to market.

Grain prices finished mixed Monday in trading made erratic by speculative buying ahead of Tuesday’s crop report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Grain crushers have extended a two-year-old moratorium on the purchase of soybeans planted in areas of the Amazon rain forest cut down after 2006, Brazil’s environment minister said Tuesday.Carlos Minc made the announcement together with the Brazilian...

Grain futures ended Friday mixed on the Chicago Board of Trade.Wheat for July delivery fell 17.5 cents to settle at $8.045 a bushel; July corn lost a penny to $6.2925 a bushel; July oats rose 1.5 cents to $4.13 a bushel; July soybeans added 48 cents to...