Dec 30 (Reuters) - Corn and soybean cash basis bids were
steady to mixed in quiet trade around the U.S. Midwest on
Tuesday as farmers inquired about prices and checked their
delivery quotas for the month, dealers said. 
    * Most farmers did not book new sales in anticipation of
better grain and soy prices in 2014.
    * A handful of locations increased bids in an effort to stir
farmer interest in booking new sales. But weak Chicago Board of
Trade corn and soy prices combined with the holiday season to
limit new-crop sales, dealers said.  
	

		

			
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    * Corn bids rose by 1 cent per bushel at a Cedar Rapids,
Iowa, processor and at an Illinois River terminal. 
    * A Mississippi River terminal near Davenport, Iowa,
increased its soybean bid by 3 cents per bushel. 
    * An Illinois ethanol plant lowered it corn bid by 5 cents
per bushel. 
    * Soybean bids were slashed by 8 cents per bushel at a port
terminal in Burns Harbor, Indiana, and at a processor in Cedar
Rapids, Iowa.   
    * Processors in Decatur, Indiana, and Council Bluffs, Iowa,
rolled soy bids to the Chicago Board of Trade March contract
from the January contract which expires Jan. 14.
    * Late on Thursday, a closely watched processor in Decatur,
Illinois, rolled its soybean bid to the CBOT March contract from
the January contract.
    
    Basis values quoted against CBOT futures in cents/bushel: 
    
                  CORN                  SOYBEANS          
 CINCINNATI OH      -11  +  H  UNC       -5     +  F  UNC
 BURNS HARBOR IN    -20  +  H  UNC      -28     +  F  DN 8
 DECATUR IN         -15  +  H  UNC                        
 DES MOINES IA                          UNQ           UNC
 LINCOLN NE         -18  +  H  UNC                    
                                                          
 PROCESSORS                                               
                  CORN                  SOYBEANS          
 DECATUR IL          +2  +  H  UNC      +25     +  H  NC
 DECATUR IN                              +8     +  H  NC
 MORRISTOWN IN                          unq        H  NC
 LAFAYETTE IN                            +5     +  F  UNC
 CEDAR RAPIDS IA    +16  +  H  UP 1     -35     +  F  DN 8
 COUNCIL BLUFFS                         -15     +  H  NC
 IA                                                   
	

		

			
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 LINCOLN NE                             -20     +  F  UNC
 BLAIR NE            +7  +  H  UNC                        
                                                          
 RIVER TERMINALS                                          
                  CORN                  SOYBEANS          
 TOLEDO OH          -14  +  H  UNC       -5     +  F  UNC
 SENECA IL          -14  +  H  UP 1      +7     +  F  UNC
 SAVANNA IL         unq     H  UNC      unq        H  UNC
 DAVENPORT IA        -4  +  H  UNC       -5     +  H  UP 3
                                                          
 ETHANOL PLANTS                                           
 LINDEN IN           -6  +  H  UNC                        
 UNION CITY IN       +0  +  H  UNC                        
 ANNAWAN IL          -5  +  H  DN 5                       
 COUNCIL BLUFFS      -5  +  H  UNC                        
 IA                                                   
                                                          
 SRW WHEAT                                                
 TOLEDO OH          -20  +  H  UNC                        
 CINCINNATI OH      -42  +  H  UNC                        
 DECATUR IN         -10  +  H  UNC                        
 BURNS HARBOR IN    -47  +  H  UNC                        
 
 NOTES: 0 = Option price, UNC = Unchanged, UNQ = Unquoted,
 NC = Not comparable, DP = Delayed Price, F = January, H = March
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LINKS: 
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- CBOT corn report                          
- CBOT soybean report                      
- CBOT wheat report                        
- U.S. grain barge freight values          
- U.S. Midwest cash grain PM              
- U.S. CIF Gulf Grain                      
- U.S. FOB Gulf Grain                      

 (Reporting by Meredith Davis in Chicago; editing by Jim
Marshall)