1.   So far, tour participants say the corn yield will be down and prices will go higher.

2.   That affects corn yield, or the amount of corn produced on a per acre basis.

3.   The moisture is boosting corn yields throughout the corn belt and has replenished soil tortured by a two-year drought in soybean-growing areas.

4.   A drought that year had sliced corn yields by a third for Beard and other Clinton County growers.

5.   Grain prices rose Tuesday on the Chicago Board of Trade, driven by concerns that the continuing dry-weather outlook for the Midwest could limit corn yields.

6.   Nationally, corn yields are slightly better than previously expected.

7.   The searing August weather cut into corn yields in the top-producing states.

8.   Harvest operations in certain regions have revealed a better-than-expected corn yield, according to Jason Roose, analyst with US Commodities.