Grain market close
The USDA Market News Service, Greeley, Colo., in the closing grain report for March 13, reported in futures trading that Chicago May soft red winter wheat was $ $4.86 1/2, down 4 1/4 cents; May corn, $3.91 3/4, up 1 cent; and May soybeans, $10.48 3/4, up 7 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, $5.51 1/2 to $5.56 1/2, up 5 3/4 to 2 1/4 cents; No. 2 yellow corn, barge, $4.45 3/4 to $4.53 3/4, down 4 cents to unchanged; No. 2 yellow sorghum, rail, $8.24 1/2 to $8.51 1/4, up 1 3/4 cents; No. 2 yellow sorghum, barge, unavailable; and No. 2 yellow soybeans, barge, $10.84 3/4 to $10.88 3/4, up 6 3/4 to 7 3/4 cents.
Colby, Kan., unit train wheat bid was $4.58.
In Denver and the surrounding area, hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, was $4.44 to $4.60.
No. 1 hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, north central Colorado, was mostly 2 cents lower, at $4.20 to $4.55.
In northeast Colorado, wheat was $4.30 to $4.63.
In east central Colorado, wheat was $4.30 to $4.55.
In southeast Colorado, wheat was $4.40 to $4.75.
In southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming, wheat bids were $4.20 to $4.63.
No. 2 yellow corn in north central Colorado was mostly 1 cent higher and $3.75 to $3.92 per bushel.
In northeast Colorado, the country elevator corn bids were $3.37 to $3.52.
In east central Colorado, corn was $3.35 to $3.47.
In southeast Colorado, corn was $3.37 to $3.77.
In southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming, corn bids were $3.40 to $3.52 per bushel.
No. 2 yellow sorghum in southeast Colorado was 2 cents higher at $5.57 to $6.16 per cwt.
No. 1 yellow soybeans in southwest Nebraska were 7 to 8 cents higher at $9.23 to $9.29 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 $3.75 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.