11.   Corn and soybean futures plummeted Thursday on the Chicago Board of Trade, pressured by slow U.S. exports and other factors.

12.   Crude oil futures plummeted Wednesday after new data showed an unexpectedly large rise in U.S. stockpiles, which reached their highest level in five months.

13.   Corn futures plummeted Friday on the Chicago Board of Trade, erasing recent gains.

14.   In other commodity trading, corn futures plummeted to contract lows, pressured by weak export data and U.S. forecasts showing better weather for the spring planting season.

15.   In other markets, corn and wheat futures plummeted to new contract lows, pressured by ideal weather conditions.

16.   In other markets, soybean futures plummeted to six-month lows, pressured by talk of ideal growing weather in South America.

17.   It was the second time this week that corn, wheat and soybean futures plummeted to a sharply lower close because of an aggressive technical selloff.

18.   Soybean futures plummeted to contract lows Wednesday on the Chicago Board of Trade amid growing concerns that foot-and-mouth disease could cut into world soymeal demand.

19.   Wheat futures plummeted Monday on the Chicago Board of Trade, under pressure from forecasts for crop-beneficial moisture in the central and southern Plains states.

20.   Wheat futures plummeted Monday on the Chicago Board of Trade, weighed down by weak demand.