21.   That will further pressure prices, since the crops will be sold at a time when export demand is perceived to be waning.

22.   The weather is good for corn pollination, and that pressured prices.

23.   Traders believe this heavy supply of new issues will pressure prices downward.

24.   Tight supplies of corn and new export business lifted some corn futures prices, while forecasts for rain in growing areas pressured prices.

25.   Traders said the upcoming supply of Treasury issues may also have been a factor in pressuring prices Monday on shorter-term maturities.

26.   Wheat prices also were pressured by the ongoing wheat harvest.

27.   Optimal growing conditions in South American soybean regions pressured prices.

28.   Prices were also pressured by forecasts for snow in the northern winter wheat crop area.

29.   A worse-than-expected unemployment report pressured stock prices Friday as Wall Street pondered how the thousands of layoffs last month would affect the economic recovery.

30.   Also pressuring the price are weather conditions that bode well for cocoa-growing areas over the next few days, according to meteorologists.