* Small rains provide little if any relief * Drought stretching to northern states * Grain prices soaring as drought spreads (New throughout; updates forecasts, US crop condition estimates; adds comments from meteorologists and analysts) By Sam Nelson CHICAGO, July 16 (Reuters) - The latest weather forecasts call for the drought afflicting the U.S. Midwest to worsen, taking a bigger toll on the country's corn and soybean crops, meteorologists said on Monday. The midday forecast showed that for next week, the eastern Midwest would get "less than 0.25 inch of rain" -- down from the morning forecast which called for up 0.75 inch rain, said Drew Lerner, meteorologist for World Weather Inc....
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