date:Jan 04, 2013
South African corn and soybean futures fell as prices slipped in the U.S., the worlds biggest producer.
Yellow corn for July, the most active contract, declined 1.7 percent to 2,076 rand ($242) a metric ton by the close on the Johannesburg-based South African Futures Exchange. White corn for delivery in March retreated 1.2 percent to 2,176 rand. Soybeans for the same month dropped for a fifth day, matching the longest streak of declines since Sept. 28, decreasing 1.6 percent to 4,640 rand a ton