Grain market close

The USDA Market News Service, Greeley, Colo., in the closing grain report for Jan. 30, reported in futures trading that Chicago March soft red winter wheat was $4.57 1/4, up 8 cents; March corn, $3.61 1/2, up 2 3/4 cents; and March soybeans, $10 1/4, up 8 3/4 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, $5.07 1/4 to $5.14 1/4, up 3 to 5 cents; No. 2 yellow corn, barge, $4.06 1/2 to $4.07 1/2, up 2 3/4 cents; No. 2 yellow sorghum, rail, $8.24, up 4 3/4 cents; No. 2 yellow sorghum, barge, unavailable; and No. 2 yellow soybeans, barge, $10.34 1/4 to $10.39 1/4, up 10 3/4 to 8 3/4 cents.

Colby, Kan., unit train wheat bid was $4.13

In Denver and the surrounding area, hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, was $4 to $4.15.

No. 1 hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, north central Colorado, was mostly 17 cents higher, at $3.75 to $4.03.

In northeast Colorado, wheat was $3.75 to $4.27.

In east central Colorado, wheat was $3.80 to $4.13.

In southeast Colorado, wheat was $3.80 to $4.30.

In southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming, wheat bids were $3.70 to $4.27.

No. 2 yellow corn in north central Colorado was mostly 3 cents higher and $3.52 to $3.72 per bushel.

In northeast Colorado, the country elevator corn bids were $3.11 to $3.27.

In east central Colorado, corn was $3.11 to $3.27.

In southeast Colorado, corn was $3.06 to $3.54.

In southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming, corn bids were $3.14 to $3.27 per bushel.

No. 2 yellow sorghum in southeast Colorado was mostly 6 cents higher at $5.39 to $6.20 per cwt.

No. 1 yellow soybeans in southwest Nebraska were mostly 8 to 9 cents higher at $8.78 to $8.84 per bushel.

White millet in Colorado, southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming was $6 to $7 per cwt., mostly $6.

Sunflowers were $18 cwt.

In Denver and surrounding areas, corn was $3.52 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.