CHICAGO (AP) _ Grain futures were mixed Thursday on the Chicago Board of Trade. Mar. corn was up 0.25 cent at $4.89 a bushel. Mar. wheat was off 0.25 cent at $5.54 a bushel. Mar. oats was up 6 cents at $3.68 a bushel. Mar. soybeans was down 0.25 cent at $10.64 a bushel. Beef was higher and pork was higher on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.

CHICAGO (AP) _ Grain futures were mostly higher Wednesday on the Chicago Board of Trade. Mar. corn gained 0.25 cent at $4.84 a bushel. Mar. wheat was unchanged at $5.54 a bushel. Mar. oats lost 6.5 cents at $3.65 a bushel. Mar. soybeans rose by 0.25 cent at $10.56 a bushel. Beef was higher and pork was higher on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.

The current seven-person Chicago school board, with members all selected by Mayor Brandon Johnson, will switch Wednesday to 20 board members and a president.

Initial market reaction following the January WASDE report was an increase in both corn and soybean prices on the Chicago Board of Trade.

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The first-ever elected Chicago Board of Education will be sworn-in Wednesday morning. The new hybrid board has several issues they will need to address. They'll waste no time tackling some of the district's most pressing issues.

CHICAGO (AP) _ Grain futures were mostly higher Tuesday on the Chicago Board of Trade. Mar. corn was unchanged at $4.89 a bushel. Mar. wheat fell by 0.5 cent at $5.58 a bushel. Mar. oats gained 9 cents at $3.71 a bushel. Mar. soybeans rose by 0.5 cent at $10.68 a bushel. Beef was lower and pork was lower on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.

CHICAGO (AP) _ Grain futures were mixed in early trading Wednesday on the Chicago Board of Trade. Mar. corn fell by 1 cents at $4.89 a bushel. Mar. wheat was up 3 cents at $5.62 a bushel. Mar. oats lost 1.75 cents at $3.71 a bushel. Mar. soybeans was up 1.75 cents at $10.69 a bushel.

Chicago Public Schools and the teachers union are reaching a stalemate in negotiations. Chicago teachers are no strangers to strikes: The last three contracts with Chicago Public Schools landed after the teachers walked off the job. "To force our hand to take a strike vote is a very cruel and mean joke," CTU President Stacy Davis Gates said.

Wheat also edged lower after hitting a one-month high on Wednesday with support from severe cold in some US wheat belts. The most active soybean contract on the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) was down 0.3% at $10.53-1/4 a bushel by 1204 GMT, after touching its highest level since late July in the previous session.

Corn reversed a drop-off seen yesterday, with traders wondering if the next Commitments of Traders report will show growing long positions in corn among fund traders. "Of keen interest will be the managed money corn long as it approaches historically high levels,

--Corn for March delivery fell 1.2%, to $4.84 a bushel, on the Chicago Board of Trade on Wednesday, falling back from recent strength on news of Trump making new threats to apply tariffs to Chinese shipments to the U.S., expected to then spark retaliatory countermeasures.

The market is split on the timing and size of tariffs on China, the EU, Mexico, Canada, and now Russia—but traders, analysts and farmers are preparing in the same way they did in 2018.