Grain market close
The USDA Market News Service, Greeley, Colo., in the closing grain report for March 6, reported in futures trading that Chicago May soft red winter wheat was $5.07, down 2 1/4 cents; May corn, $3.88 1/4, up 1 cent; and May soybeans, $10.74 3/4, down 2 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, $5.62 to $5.72, down 7 1/4 to 2 1/4 cents; No. 2 yellow corn, barge, $4.43 1/4 to $4.44 1/4, up 2 to 1 cent; No. 2 yellow sorghum, rail, $8.18 1/4 to $8.45, up 1 3/4 cents; No. 2 yellow sorghum, barge, unavailable; and No. 2 yellow soybeans, barge, $11.14 3/4 to $11.16 3/4, down 1 3/4 to 3/4 cent.
Colby, Kan., unit train wheat bid was $4.77.
In Denver and the surrounding area, hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, was $4.67 to $4.82.
No. 1 hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, north central Colorado, was mostly 4 cents lower, at $4.24 to $4.67.
In northeast Colorado, wheat was $4.51 to $4.85.
In east central Colorado, wheat was $4.51 to $4.77.
In southeast Colorado, wheat was $4.62 to $4.97.
In southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming, wheat bids were $4.42 to $4.85.
No. 2 yellow corn in north central Colorado was mostly 1 cent higher and $3.83 to $3.88 per bushel.
In northeast Colorado, the country elevator corn bids were $3.33 to $3.48.
In east central Colorado, corn was $3.31 to $3.43.
In southeast Colorado, corn was $3.33 to $3.73.
In southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming, corn bids were $3.35 to $3.48 per bushel.
No. 2 yellow sorghum in southeast Colorado was mostly 2 cents higher at $5.50 to $6.09 per cwt.
No. 1 yellow soybeans in southwest Nebraska were 3 cents lower at $9.49 to $9.55 per bushel.
White millet in Colorado, southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming was $6.25 to $7 per cwt., mostly $6.50.
Sunflowers were $18 cwt.
In Denver and surrounding areas, corn was $3.83 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.