11.   In recent weeks, soybean futures prices in the U.S. shot up as heavy rains kept farmers in the north from beginning to harvest on time.

12.   Keeping farmers on the land is the goal of European political leaders searching for ways to halt unfettered urban development.

13.   Many of the varieties never have been tested commercially, which also keeps farmers away.

14.   Mud has kept many farmers from planting corn.

15.   Officials generally said the compact was needed to keep farmers in business and preserve farm land and a local supply of fresh milk.

16.   Rain typically keeps farmers out of their fields and gives them more time to transport animals to market.

17.   Rain forecast for today and tomorrow supported prices because it could keep farmers out of the fields and delay harvesting, traders said.

18.   Rain has kept farmers out of fields, pushing back the time early Brazil crops can come to market.

19.   The dryness has kept farmers from planting soybean fields, and those crops that are planted have had problems germinating.

20.   The inclement weather may keep farmers from bringing hogs to market, reducing supplies just as retailers are starting to book orders for holiday hams, traders said.