Grain market close
The USDA Market News Service, Greeley, Colorado, in the closing grain report for Jan. 9, reported in futures trading that Chicago March soft red winter wheat was $4.32 1/4, up 4 1/2 cents; March corn, $3.49, up 1 3/4 cents; and March soybeans, $9.63 3/4, down 3 cents.
The export bid for direct Gulf delivery of No. 1 hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, rail, unavailable; No. 2 soft red winter wheat, barge, $4.82 1/4 to $4.87 1/4, up 4 1/2 cents; No. 2 yellow corn, barge, $3.89 to $3.92, up 1 3/4 to 3/4 cents; No. 2 yellow sorghum, rail, $8.01 3/4, up 3 cents; No. 2 yellow sorghum, barge, unavailable; and No. 2 yellow soybeans, barge, $10.03 3/4 to $10.07 3/4, down 7 to 5 cents.
Colby, Kan., unit train wheat bid was $3.84.
In Denver and the surrounding area, hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, was $3.64 to $3.79.
No. 1 hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, north central Colorado, was mostly 6 cents higher, at $3.49 to $3.69.
In northeast Colorado, wheat was $3.44 to $3.70.
In east central Colorado, wheat was $3.44 to $3.77.
In southeast Colorado, wheat was $3.49 to $3.84.
In southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming, wheat bids were $3.39 to $3.70.
No. 2 yellow corn in north central Colorado was mostly 2 cents higher and $3.34 to $3.59 per bushel.
In northeast Colorado, the country elevator corn bids were $2.99 to $3.14.
In east central Colorado, corn was $2.99 to $3.11.
In southeast Colorado, corn was $2.94 to $3.39.
In southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming, corn bids were $3.01 to $3.14 per bushel.
No. 2 yellow sorghum in southeast Colorado was mostly 4 cents higher at $5.16 to $5.70 per cwt.
No. 1 yellow soybeans in southwest Nebraska were steady to 1 cent lower at $8.36 to $8.42 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 $3.34 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 $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.