11.   Corn was pressured by news that South Korean bought more corn from China overnight as well as by the forecasts for more precipitation in the U.S. Midwest.

12.   Farmers and grain exporters fear the discovery could alarm European and Asian companies that have said they will not buy any corn suspected of being tainted by StarLink.

13.   Muluzi said he had negotiated to buy corn from South Africa to meet a shortfall caused by devastating floods earlier this year in this impoverished African country.

14.   Officials said the NFA had been buying corn in recent weeks because of a shortage of feed grains due to the drought in southern Mindanao island.

15.   Russia is also looking to buy corn and soybean mixture to feed livestock, Kulik said, according to the ITAR-Tass news agency.

16.   The government, however, has started a program where tortilla producers can buy corn from outside of Conasupo and still receive a subsidy.

17.   The figures may also be distorted by tortilla sellers buying more corn than they need and reselling it, he said.

18.   The government has, however, agreed to buy corn from farmers at a set price.

19.   The money, to be managed by the British charity Save the Children, will be used to buy corn from South Africa.

20.   They do not want to buy corn anymore.