US grain futures fell on Monday as a worsening eurozone debt crisis sent stock markets tumbling, with soyabeans slumping more than 2 percent as the government raised its US crop production forecast. Corn futures were also lower, weighed down by a broad flight from risk, but losses were limited by the US Department of Agriculture's cut in its yield estimate - a bigger reduction than traders expected - and the possibility of a another downward revision next month.
December corn futures on the Chicago Board of Trade fell 0.3 percent to $7.34 per bushel as of 10:45 am CDT (1545 GMT), the new-crop contract's fourth drop in the past five trading sessions. CBOT November soyabeans fell 2.1 percent to $13.97 per bushel in the steepest drop in five weeks after USDA raised its crop production forecast to 3.085 billion bushels, above trade estimates for 3.032 billion bushels and up from its August estimate of 3.056 billion, due to higher yields. CBOT December wheat fell 0.9 percent to a one-month low of $7.23-1/4 a bushel after USDA raised US and global wheat ending stocks estimates in its monthly report.
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