Grain market close

The USDA Market News Service, Greeley, Colo., in the closing grain report for May 1, reported in futures trading that Chicago July soft red winter wheat was $5.29 1/4, no comparisons; July corn, $4.05 3/4, no comparisons; and July soybeans, $10.53 1/4, no comparisons.

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, $5.79 3/4 to $5.96 3/4, up 4 1/4 to 12 1/4 cents; No. 2 yellow corn, barge, $4.52 3/4 to $4.53 3/4, up 1 1/4 cents; No. 2 yellow sorghum, rail, unavailable; No. 2 yellow sorghum, barge, unavailable; and No. 2 yellow soybeans, barge, $10.99 1/2 to $11.03 1/2, up 8 3/4 to 3 3/4 cents.

Colby, Kan., unit train wheat bid was $4.86.

In Denver and the surrounding area, hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, was $4.58 to $4.88.

No. 1 hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, north central Colorado, was mostly 15 to 16 cents higher, at $4.48 to $4.73.

In northeast Colorado, wheat was $4.58 to $4.89.

In east central Colorado, wheat was $4.58 to $4.63.

In southeast Colorado, wheat was $4.67 to $5.13.

In southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming, wheat bids were $4.53 to $4.89.

No. 2 yellow corn in north central Colorado was mostly 5 to 14 cents higher and $3.91 to $4.05 per bushel.

In northeast Colorado, the country elevator corn bids were $3.51 to $3.66.

In east central Colorado, corn was $3.48 to $3.58.

In southeast Colorado, corn was $3.51 to $4.

In southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming, corn bids were $3.50 to $3.61 per bushel.

No. 2 yellow sorghum in southeast Colorado was mostly 9 cents higher at $6.07 to $6.18 per cwt.

No. 1 yellow soybeans in southwest Nebraska were mostly 1 to 5 cents higher at $9.17 to $.23 per bushel.

White millet in Colorado, southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming was $6.50 to $7.75 per cwt., mostly $7.

Sunflowers were $18 cwt.

In Denver and surrounding areas, corn was $3.91 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 $22. 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 $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.