1.   An increase in wheat sales by farmers also weighed on futures prices.

2.   A lack of confirmation of wheat sales to China also pressured wheat futures.

3.   A harsh winter delayed Canadian wheat sales, diverting business to the U.S.

4.   Complicating matters for exporters, the Agriculture Department stopped subsidizing U.S. wheat sales temporarily in July, following a similar move by the European Union earlier in the month.

5.   Friday the Agriculture Department announced another China wheat sale.

6.   Investors were still awaiting word on a possible wheat sale to China.

7.   It is not known what the discovery of karnal bunt will do to the latest wheat sale to the country.

8.   Kansas City and Chicago wheat futures prices finished mixed Wednesday following confirmation of a wheat sale to China.

9.   Kansas City wheat futures traded slightly higher for much of the session, supported by a wheat sale to Egypt.

10.   Kansas City wheat futures and Chicago grain and soybean futures prices rose broadly Friday, boosted by stronger soybean oil prices and expectations of a wheat sale to Egypt.