Chicago Board of Trade grains and soy complex trends at 12:22 pm CDT (1722 GMT) Thursday. May wheat up 4 cents at $5.12 a bushel. May corn up 5 cents at $3.90-3/4 a bushel. Soyabeans of May down 2 cents at $9.49 a bushel. Choppy market turns weaker on fears that China may release some soyabeans it has been holding in reserve but prices underpinned by signs recession may be easing as well as gains in crude oil.
May soyameal down $2.00 at $292.30 a ton, while May soyaoil up 0.22 cent at 33.59 cents a lb.