NEW YORK: Crop prices closed higher Thursday after the Department of Agriculture cut its forecast for the size of this year's harvest.
The USDA said hot weather stunted corn crops throughout the Midwest, dragging the yield of each acre down about 4 percent. That means grain supplies could be tight through 2012, keeping prices up.
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