DTN Early Word Grains         04/15 05:50
   Grain Markets Lower, Responding to Outside Markets

   May corn is down 1 1/2 cents per bushel, May soybeans are down 3 cents, May
KC wheat is down 3 cents, May Chicago wheat is down 6 cents and May Minneapolis
wheat is down 2 1/4 cents.

Kent Beadle, DTN Contributing Analyst

   EARLY MORNING GLOBEX NET CHANGES: May corn is down 1 1/2 cents per bushel,
May soybeans are down 3 cents, May KC wheat is down 3 cents, May Chicago wheat
is down 6 cents and May Minneapolis wheat is down 2 1/4 cents.

   CME GLOBEX RECAP: World equity markets are mixed but mostly rebounding after
a poor session on Friday where worries about the conflict in the Middle East
and higher interest rates weighed on markets. The success that Israel had in
repelling the Iranian attack has traders believing that the odds of an
escalation are smaller.

   Highlights for new economic data this week include Retail Sales and Business
Inventories Monday, Housing Starts and Industrial Production on Tuesday, and
Jobless claims and Existing Home Sales on Thursday. In agriculture, we will get
a cattle on feed report on Friday in addition to the normal weekly reports.

   OUTSIDE MARKETS: Previous closes Friday showed the Dow Jones Industrial
Average down 475.84 at 37,983.24 and the S&P 500 down 75.65 at 5,123.41, The
10-Year Treasury yield ended at 4.50%. Early Monday, the June Dow Jones Futures
are up 88 points. European markets are mixed with the spot futures of London's
FTSE 100 trading down 0.46%, spot futures of Germany's DAX is trading up 1.01%
and the spot futures of France's CAC 40 Index up 0.72%. Asian markets are mixed
with Japan's Nikkei 225 Index down 0.74% and China's Shanghai Composite Index
up 1.26%.