11.   Corn rose to its highest price in a month on concern that intense heat in Illinois will reduce the bumper crop expected this fall.

12.   Corn could rise amid expectations that exports, lagging a year ago, will soon pick up as buyers cover their needs, depleting large U.S. inventories.

13.   Corn rose after a government report of larger-than-expected export sales last week.

14.   Corn rose after the Agriculture Department said ranchers placed more cattle into feedlots than expected last month, signaling greater domestic demand for grain.

15.   Corn rose amid concern that cool, wet Midwest weather in the coming days could slow development of the crop, leaving fields vulnerable to a fall frost.

16.   Corn rose for a third day amid signs that fresh supplies from the bumper harvest are attracting buyers to the market.

17.   Corn rose with soybean markets amid forecasts for a jump in spring plantings.

18.   Corn rose, in part, because of the soybean rally, analysts said.

19.   Elsewhere, corn rose after the USDA lowered estimates for both the new crop and stockpiles before the fall harvest.

20.   In other markets, corn rose after the USDA said farmers have made less progress than previously thought planting the fields.