Grain market close
The USDA Market News Service, Greeley, Colo., in the closing grain report for Jan. 2, reported in futures trading that Chicago March soft red winter wheat was $4.33 1/2, up 6 1/2 cents; March corn, $3.53 1/4, up 2 1/2 cents; and July soybeans, unavailable.
The export bid for direct Gulf delivery of No. 1 hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, rail, $5.14 3/4 to $5.24 3/4, up 7 1/2 cents; No. 2 soft red winter wheat, barge, $4.83 1/2 to $4.85 1/2, up 11 1/2 to 6 1/2 cents; No. 2 yellow corn, barge, $3.89 1/4 to $3.96 1/4, up 12 1/2 to 7 1/2 cents; No. 2 yellow sorghum, rail, $8.09 1/2 , up 4 1/2 cents; No. 2 yellow sorghum, barge, unavailable; and No. 2 yellow soybeans, barge, $9.89 to $9.91, up 11 1/4 to down 4 3/4 cents.
Colby, Kan., unit train wheat bid was $3.77.
In Denver and the surrounding area, hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, was $3.57 to $3.85.
No. 1 hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, north central Colorado, was mostly 6 cents higher, at $3.34 to $3.60.
In northeast Colorado, wheat was $3.30 to $3.60.
In east central Colorado, wheat was $3.40 to $3.73.
In southeast Colorado, wheat was $3.45 to $3.80.
In southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming, wheat bids were $3.35 to $3.60.
No. 2 yellow corn in north central Colorado was mostly 2 cents higher and $3.38 to $3.53 per bushel.
In northeast Colorado, the country elevator corn bids were $3.03 to $3.18.
In east central Colorado, corn was $3.03 to $3.15.
In southeast Colorado, corn was $3 to $3.43.
In southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming, corn bids were $3.05 to $3.18 per bushel.
No. 2 yellow sorghum in southeast Colorado was 3 to 13 cents higher at $5.23 to $5.77 per cwt.
No. 1 yellow soybeans in southwest Nebraska were mostly 1 to 3 cents higher at $8.34 to $8.41 per bushel.
White millet in Colorado, southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming was $6 to $6.50 per cwt., mostly $6.
Sunflowers were $18 cwt.
In Denver and surrounding areas, corn was $3.38 per bushel. Barley was unavailable.
In northeast Colorado, Wyoming and western Nebraska, pinto beans were steady $21 per cwt; in North Dakota and Minnesota, pinto beans were steady $20 to $21. In North Dakota and Minnesota, black beans were steady $26. Great Northerns were steady at $21 in northeast Colorado, Wyoming and western Nebraska. In North Dakota and Minnesota, navy beans were steady $23 to $24. In northeast Colorado, Wyoming and western Nebraska, light red kidneys were steady $35; in North Dakota and Minnesota, light red kidneys were steady $33.