Grain market close

The USDA Market News Service, Greeley, Colo., in the closing grain report for Jan. 16, reported in futures trading that Chicago March soft red winter wheat was $4.16 1/2, down 4 cents; March corn, $3.48 1/4, up 2 cents; and March soybeans, $9.68, up 7 1/2 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, $4.66 1/2 to $4.71 1/2, down 4 cents; No. 2 yellow corn, barge, $3.88 1/4 to $3.96 1/4, up 2 cents; No. 2 yellow sorghum, rail, $8 1/2, up 3 1/2 cents; No. 2 yellow sorghum, barge, no comparison; and No. 2 yellow soybeans, barge, $10.11 to $10.13, up 8 1/2 to 5 1/2 cents.

Colby, Kan., unit train wheat bid was $3.72.

In Denver and the surrounding area, hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, was $3.47 to $3.62.

No. 1 hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, north central Colorado, was mostly 4 cents lower, at $3.32 to 3.55.

In northeast Colorado, wheat was $3.27 to $3.68.

In east central Colorado, wheat was $3.32 to $3.65.

In southeast Colorado, wheat was $3.32 to $3.72.

In southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming, wheat bids were $3.22 to $3.68.

No. 2 yellow corn in north central Colorado was 2 cents higher and $3.33 to $3.58 per bushel.

In northeast Colorado, the country elevator corn bids were $2.98 to $3.13.

In east central Colorado, corn was $2.98 to $3.10.

In southeast Colorado, corn was $2.93 to $3.10.

In southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming, corn bids were $3 to $3.13 per bushel.

No. 2 yellow sorghum in southeast Colorado was mostly 4 cents higher at $5.14 to $5.77 per cwt.

No. 1 yellow soybeans in southwest Nebraska were mostly 7 to 8 cents higher at $8.46 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 $3.33 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.