Grain market close
The USDA Market News Service, Greeley, Colo., in the closing grain report for June 6, reported in futures trading that Chicago July soft red winter wheat was $5.19 3/4, up 14 1/2 cents; July corn, $3.78 1/4, down 2 1/2 cents; and July soybeans, $9.94 1/4, down 7 1/2 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, $5.77 3/4 to $5.79 3/4, up 17 1/2 to 14 1/2 cents; No. 2 yellow corn, barge, $4.32 3/4 to $4.34 3/4, up 17 1/2 to 14 1/2 cents; No. 2 yellow sorghum, rail, unavailable; No. 2 yellow sorghum, barge, unavailable; and No. 2 yellow soybeans, barge, $10.49 1/4 to $10.50 1/4, down 6 1/2 to 7 1/2 cents.
Colby, Kan., unit train wheat bid was $4.88.
In Denver and the surrounding area, hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, was $4.65 to $4.90.
No. 1 hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, north central Colorado, was mostly 11 cents higher, at $4.53 to $4.75.
In northeast Colorado, wheat was $4.60 to $4.83.
In east central Colorado, wheat was $4.65 to $4.75.
In southeast Colorado, wheat was $4.60 to $5.15.
In southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming, wheat bids were $4.59 to $4.83.
No. 2 yellow corn in north central Colorado was 6 cents lower and $3.63 to $3.83 per bushel.
In northeast Colorado, the country elevator corn bids were $3.28 to $3.48.
In east central Colorado, corn was $3.23 to $3.33.
In southeast Colorado, corn was $3.23 to $3.67.
In southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming, corn bids were $3.24 to $3.35 per bushel.
No. 2 yellow sorghum in southeast Colorado was mostly 10 cents lower at $5.80 to $6.04 per cwt.
No. 1 yellow soybeans in southwest Nebraska were mostly 7 cents lower at $8.64 to $8.77 per bushel.
White millet in Colorado, southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming was $7.25 to $8.25 per cwt., mostly $8.25.
Sunflowers were $18 cwt.
In Denver and surrounding areas, corn was $3.63 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 $21 to $22. In North Dakota and Minnesota, black beans were steady $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.