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Grains mostly higher, livestock mixed.

Grain futures were mostly higher Friday in early trading on the Chicago Board of Trade.

Wheat for Mar. delivery gained 5.20 cents at $5.6740 a bushel; Mar. corn was up 2 cents at $3.8020 a bushel; Mar. oats rose 4 cents at $3.09 a bushel; while Jan. soybeans was unchanged at 9.2320 a bushel.

Beef was mixed and pork was higher on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.

Feb. live cattle was off .10 cent at $1.2555 a pound; Jan. feeder cattle was up .16 cent at $1.4478 a pound; Feb. lean hogs rose .63 cent at .6738 a pound.

The Associated Press