21.   Kansas City and Chicago wheat futures prices closed mostly higher Monday as concern continued about crop conditions.

22.   Kansas City and Chicago wheat futures prices closed with solid gains Tuesday after the Agriculture Department on Monday reported declining crop conditions.

23.   Mostly clear weather is forecast for the days ahead, according to Weather Services Corp., also improving crop conditions.

24.   Showers in Iowa and elsewhere in the western corn belt helped improve U.S. corn crop conditions in the past week, an Agriculture Department report showed.

25.   Streams are flowing at precipitously low levels, and crop conditions declined markedly, the survey said.

26.   The Agriculture Department releases its weekly report on crop conditions.

27.   The Department of Agriculture reports on crop conditions.

28.   There also was some speculation that favorable weather could turn around the recent decline in U.S. crop conditions.

29.   Thunderstorms drenched the driest growing areas of central Illinois this past weekend, raising expectations that crop conditions could improve further in the coming week.

30.   To be sure, expectations for crop conditions have yet to show in official ratings.