* CBOT December corn settled up 1/2 cent at $3.67 per bushel and held above chart support at its 50-day moving average near $3.65.
* Strength in CBOT soybean futures lent support while weakness in CBOT wheat kept corn futures anchored.
* The US Department of Agriculture said private exporters sold 212,000 tonnes of US corn to Mexico for delivery in the 2018/19 marketing year that began Sept. 1.
* The USDA late Tuesday said the US corn harvest was 84 percent complete, lagging the average trade estimate of 87 percent and the five-year average of 87 percent.
* Taiwan's feed industry procurement association MFIG purchased about 62,000 tonnes of corn, to be sourced from the United States or Brazil in an international tender on Wednesday, European traders said.