Corn supply tightens for 2012, prices expected to rise

Thursday, August 11, 2011 | 4:56 p.m. CDT; updated 7:02 p.m. CDT, Thursday, August 11, 2011

ST. LOUIS — Americans can expect to pay slightly higher food prices next year because of expectations that an unseasonably hot summer damaged much of this year's corn crop.

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