1.   Corn and soybean futures tumbled for a sixth day as rain again doused Midwestern farms, raising the chances for a bountiful fall harvest.

2.   Corn and soybeans tumbled for a sixth day as rain dousing Midwestern farms raised the chances for a bountiful fall harvest.

3.   Corn and soybeans plunged after weekend rain soaked parched Midwestern farms, nourishing crops and improving chances for bumper harvests.

4.   Ethanol, a fuel additive made from corn, is popular in Midwestern farm states.

5.   For years the Midwestern farm belt has been the reliable power base of Republicans.

6.   Large Midwestern farms support such an approach because it gives them broader leeway in deciding when to plant, what to plant and how much to plant.

7.   Large Midwestern farms favor this approach because it gives them broader discretion on what crops to plant.

8.   Most of the swine were trucked hundreds of miles from Midwestern farms.

9.   Scientists believe it has been created mainly by the runoff of fertilizer from Midwestern farms in the upper Mississippi River drainage.

10.   Similar substances were used to make the Oklahoma City bomb, but such materials are also not unusual on Midwestern farms.