Thursday

Final trading day before Christmas brought bids, with corn up 3 1/4 to 605 3/4 and beans up 3 1/4 as well, 1332.  Meal and oil strong again.  Wheat barely gets higher, 814 3/4, plus 3/4.  Rice gains 13 1/2 to 1405 with what looks like a short dated system pushing the upside.  Dow up 200 points, 35,832, and bonds slip 29 tics, 160.15.