11.   Profit-taking after a bullish week for farm commodities sent grain and soybean futures sharply lower Friday on the Chicago Board of Trade.

12.   Soybeans also rose sharply, while other farm commodities were little-changed.

13.   They see it as designed primarily to dispose of surplus U.S. farm commodities and questioned whether it can be sustained.

14.   Wheat prices were flat, with early selling by funds countering any tendency to rise in lockstep with other farm commodities.

15.   The Bombay-based think tank, Centre for Monitoring the Indian Economy, said prices of both farm commodities and manufactured products were firming up.