1.   Deeper fissures have developed over farm commodity programs and how to reform them.

2.   Normal rainfall, after all, would mean even more overproduction of farm commodities, leading to even lower prices and presumably more troubles for farmers.

3.   The deficiency is the difference between the market price of farm commodities and a target price.

4.   Analysts said the latest increase reflects an economic slowdown, particularly in exports and manufacturing, together with falling prices for key farm commodities like meat and wool.

5.   As with other farm commodities, soybean export sales figures failed to meet market expectations, putting additional pressure on prices.

6.   Australia believes its farmers, in particular, have been badly hurt in recent years by heavily subsidized European and U.S. exports of farm commodities.

7.   Corn found support from the rally in other farm commodities as well as from changing weather forecasts for South America.

8.   Corn found support from the rally in other farm commodities as well as from forecasts calling for a dry weekend in key crop areas of South America.

9.   Like other railroads, Burlington Northern has been squeezed this year by rising fuel prices and softness in shipments of farm commodities and coal.

10.   Other farm commodity prices settled mixed.