Grain market close
The USDA Market News Service, Greeley, Colo., in the closing grain report for Feb. 27, reported in futures trading that Chicago July soft red winter wheat was $4.63 1/4, up 3 3/4 cents; March corn, $3.70 1/2, up 2 cents; and March soybeans, $10.38, up 3 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, $5.23 1/4 to $5.43 1/4, up 3 3/4 to 11 3/4 cents; No. 2 yellow corn, barge, $4.26 1/2 to $4.33 1/2, up 2 to 8 cents; No. 2 yellow sorghum, rail, $8.40 1/4 to $8.76, up 3 3/4 cents; No. 2 yellow sorghum, barge, unavailable; and No. 2 yellow soybeans, barge, $10.78 to $10.80, up 3 3/4 cents.
Colby, Kan., unit train wheat bid was $4.34.
In Denver and the surrounding area, hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, was $4.19 to $4.34.
No. 1 hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, north central Colorado, was mostly 11 cents higher, at $3.89 to $4.24.
In northeast Colorado, wheat was $4.04 to $4.47.
In east central Colorado, wheat was $3.99 to $4.39.
In southeast Colorado, wheat was $3.99 to $4.60.
In southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming, wheat bids were $3.99 to $4.46.
No. 2 yellow corn in north central Colorado was mostly 2 cents higher and $3.71 to $3.79 per bushel.
In northeast Colorado, the country elevator corn bids were $3.20 to $3.36.
In east central Colorado, corn was $3.20 to $3.41.
In southeast Colorado, corn was $3.15 to $3.64.
In southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming, corn bids were $3.25 to $3.36 per bushel.
No. 2 yellow sorghum in southeast Colorado was 5 cents higher at $5.55 to $5.93 per cwt.
No. 1 yellow soybeans in southwest Nebraska were mostly 4 to 6 cents higher at $9.22 to $9.30 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 $3.71 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.