DTN Early Word Grains         10/22 05:51
   Grain Markets Mixed With Strong Harvest Progress Offset by Strong Cash
Markets

   December corn is up 1/2 cent per bushel, November soybeans are up 1 cent,
December KC wheat is down 3 1/4 cents, December Chicago wheat is down 3 1/2
cents and December Minneapolis wheat is down 3 1/4 cents.

Kent Beadle, DTN Contributing Analyst

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

   CME GLOBEX RECAP: World equity markets are mostly lower again on Tuesday
morning with the Chinese market once again being the loan market that is
showing some strength. On Monday, the U.S. market was mixed, with tech stocks
higher but with both the Dow and the S&P lower. U.S. leading economic
indicators came in weaker than expected.

   We will not get any new data points Tuesday, but we do have a speech from
the Philadelphia Federal Reserve president.

   OUTSIDE MARKETS: Previous closes Monday showed the Dow Jones Industrial
Average down 344.31 at 42,931.60 and the S&P 500 down 10.69 at 5,853.98. The
10-Year Treasury yield ended at 4.182%. Early Tuesday, the December Dow Jones
Futures are down 200 points. European markets are mixed/higher/lower with the
spot futures of London's FTSE 100 trading down 0.81%, spot futures of Germany's
DAX is trading down 0.27% and the spot futures of France's CAC 40 Index down
0.79%. Asian markets are mixed/higher/lower with Japan's Nikkei 225 Index down
1.39% and China's Shanghai Composite Index up 0.54%.