1.   After fears that cold weather might ravage soya crops, the market became worried that heat might reduce yields this week.

2.   But dalers were worried by the prospect of a reduced soya crop in the state of Iowa.

3.   But at the end of the week, forecasts of heavy rainfall in the American mid-western plains threatening to damage the soya crop there pushed prices back up somewhat.

4.   The prospect of a bumper soya crop across South America sent prices on the Chicago market into a nosedive this week.

5.   Not to mention the onset of cold weather in the American great plains, which is threatening an already weak corn harvest and the soya bean crop.

6.   The market remained under pressure in the face of uncertainty over the size of the forthcoming soya crop in the United States.

7.   The market remains dominated by fears of a poor soya crop in the United States.