Grain market close
The USDA Market News Service, Greeley, Colo., in the closing grain report for Feb. 13, reported in futures trading that Chicago March soft red winter wheat was $4.60 3/4, down 3 1/4 cents; March corn, $3.66 3/4, down 1/4 cent; and March soybeans, $10.11 3/4, up 10 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, $5.20 3/4 to $5.25 3/4, down 3 1/4 cents; No. 2 yellow corn, barge, $4.11 3/4 to $4.14 3/4, down 1/4 to up 3/4 cent; No. 2 yellow sorghum, rail, $8.33 1/2 to $8.69 1/4, down 1/2 cent; No. 2 yellow sorghum, barge, unavailable; and No. 2 yellow soybeans, barge, $10.46 3/4 to $10.47 3/4, up 10 cents.
Colby, Kan., unit train wheat bid was $4.08.
In Denver and the surrounding area, hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, was $4.05 to $4.20.
No. 1 hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, north central Colorado, was 3 cents lower, at $3.76 to $4.10.
In northeast Colorado, wheat was $3.89 to $4.32.
In east central Colorado, wheat was $3.84 to $4.20.
In southeast Colorado, wheat was $3.85 to $4.40.
In southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming, wheat bids were $3.85 to $4.32.
No. 2 yellow corn in north central Colorado was mostly steady and $3.67 to $3.77 per bushel.
In northeast Colorado, the country elevator corn bids were 3.17 to $3.32.
In east central Colorado, corn was $3.17 to $3.37.
In southeast Colorado, corn was $3.12 to $3.59.
In southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming, corn bids were $3.19 to $3.32 per bushel.
No. 2 yellow sorghum in southeast Colorado was mostly steady at $5.48 to $5.84 per cwt.
No. 1 yellow soybeans in southwest Nebraska were mostly 10 cents higher at $8.96 to $9.01 per bushel.
White millet in Colorado, southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming was $6 to $7 per cwt., mostly $6 to $6.25.
Sunflowers were $18 cwt.
In Denver and surrounding areas, corn was $3.67 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 to $1 lower $25 to $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 $33; in North Dakota and Minnesota, light red kidneys were steady $35.