Wheat for March advanced 11.50 cents at 4.33 a bushel; March corn up 5.25 cents at 3.5650 a bushel; March oats gained 5.50 cents at $2.7550 bushel; while March soybeans rose 6 cents at $9.9225 a bushel.

Beef was mixed and pork was higher on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange February live cattle was up .70 cent at $1.2542 a pound; January feeder cattle fell .47 cent at $1.4815 a pound; while February lean hogs rose .67 cents at $.7292 a pound.