Grain market close
The USDA Market News Service, Greeley, Colo., in the closing grain report for Feb. 22, reported in futures trading that Chicago March soft red winter wheat was $4.49 1/4, down 8 1/2 cents; March corn, $3.65 1/2, down 2 cents; and March soybeans, $10.26 1/2, up 5 cents.
The export bid for direct Gulf delivery of No. 1 hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, rail, no comparisons; No. 2 soft red winter wheat, barge, $5.09 1/4 to $5.11 1/4, down 8 1/2 cents; No. 2 yellow corn, barge, $4.10 1/2 to $4.12 1/2, down 2 cents; No. 2 yellow sorghum, rail, $8.31 1/4 to $8.67, down 3 1/2 cents; No. 2 yellow sorghum, barge, unavailable; and No. 2 yellow soybeans, barge, $10.56 1/2 to $10.61 1/2, up 5 cents.
Colby, Kan., unit train wheat bid was $4.15.
In Denver and the surrounding area, hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, was $4.02 to $4.17.
No. 1 hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, north central Colorado, was mostly 7 cents lower, at $3.72 $4.07.
In northeast Colorado, wheat was $3.87 to $4.29.
In east central Colorado, wheat was $3.82 to $4.17.
In southeast Colorado, wheat was $3.82 to $4.37.
In southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming, wheat bids were $3.82 to $4.29.
No. 2 yellow corn in north central Colorado was mostly 2 cents lower and $3.66 to $3.75 per bushel.
In northeast Colorado, the country elevator corn bids were $3.15 to $3.31.
In east central Colorado, corn was $3.15 to $3.33.
In southeast Colorado, corn was $3.10 to $3.58.
In southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming, corn bids were $3.20 to $3.31 per bushel.
No. 2 yellow sorghum in southeast Colorado was 4 cents lower at $5.46 to $5.82 per cwt.
No. 1 yellow soybeans in southwest Nebraska were 5 cents higher at $9.11 to $9.16 per bushel.
White millet in Colorado, southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming was $6 to $7 per cwt., mostly $6.50.
Sunflowers were $18 cwt.
In Denver and surrounding areas, corn was $3.66 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 $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 $35; in North Dakota and Minnesota, light red kidneys were steady $33.