Grain market close
The USDA Market News Service, Greeley, Colo., in the closing grain report for June 19, reported in futures trading that Chicago July soft red winter wheat was $4.77 3/4, down 12 1/4 cents; July corn, $3.53 3/4, down 2 1/4 cents; and July soybeans, $8.89, down 19 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, $5.35 3/4 to $5.39 3/4, down 12 1/4 cents; No. 2 yellow corn, barge, $4.06 3/4 to $4.07 3/4, up 1 3/4 to 2 1/4 cents; No. 2 yellow sorghum, rail, $7.33 to $7.42, down 3 1/4 to 3 cents; No. 2 yellow sorghum, barge, unavailable; and No. 2 yellow soybeans, barge, $9.40 to $9.41, down 18 1/2 cents.
Colby, Kan., unit train wheat bid was $4.47.
In Denver and the surrounding area, hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, was $4.40 to $4.69.
No. 1 hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, north central Colorado, was mostly 17 cents lower, at $4 to $4.28.
In northeast Colorado, wheat was $4.10 to $4.33.
In east central Colorado, wheat was $4.08 to $4.28.
In southeast Colorado, wheat was $4.33 to $4.73.
In southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming, wheat bids were $3.99 to $4.33.
No. 2 yellow corn in north central Colorado was mostly 2 cents lower and $3.39 to $3.69 per bushel.
In northeast Colorado, the country elevator corn bids were $3.09 to $3.39.
In east central Colorado, corn was $2.99 to $3.09.
In southeast Colorado, corn was $2.99 to $3.46.
In southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming, corn bids were $3 to $3.23 per bushel.
No. 2 yellow sorghum in southeast Colorado was mostly 3 cents lower at $5.61 per cwt.
No. 1 yellow soybeans in southwest Nebraska were mostly 19 to 20 cents lower at $7.89 to $7.72 per bushel.
White millet in Colorado, southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming was $7.25 to $8.50 per cwt., mostly $8.
Sunflowers were $18 cwt.
In Denver and surrounding areas, corn was $3.43 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 $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.