Prices farmers received this month for raw...

Prices farmers received this month for raw products rose an average 2.4% over last month and opened the new year 7.4% above January, 1987, the Agriculture Department said. Higher prices for cattle, hogs, oranges, soybeans and broiler chickens contributed most to the January increase. Lower prices for strawberries, turkeys and peanuts helped dampen the gains for other commodities, however. New quarterly figures showed prices paid by farmers to meet expenses were unchanged, on the average, from last October but were up 4.4% from a year earlier.