Grain market close
The USDA Market News Service, Greeley, Colo., in the closing grain report for July 3, reported in futures trading that Chicago September soft red winter wheat was $4.91, up 10 3/4 cents; September corn, $3.52, up 5 cents; and August soybeans, $8.48, down 5 1/2 cents.
The export bid for direct Gulf delivery of No. 1 hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, rail, $5.69, no comparisons; No. 2 soft red winter wheat, barge, $5.46 to $5.58, up 6 3/4 to 11 3/4 cents; No. 2 yellow corn, barge, $3.98 to $3.99, up 7 1/2 to 6 1/2 cents; No. 2 yellow sorghum, rail, $6/68 1/4, no comparisons; No. 2 yellow sorghum, barge, unavailable; and No. 2 yellow soybeans, barge, $8.95 to $9.04, down 4 1/2 to 1/2 cent.
Colby, Kan., unit train wheat bid was unavailable.
In Denver and the surrounding area, hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, was $4.19 to $4.44.
No. 1 hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, north central Colorado, cash/new crop bids mostly 13 cents higher, at $3.86 to $4.35.
In northeast Colorado, wheat was $4.24 to $4.35.
In east central Colorado, wheat was $4.02 to $4.34.
In southeast Colorado, wheat was $4.29 to $4.59.
In southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming, wheat bids were $3.84 to $4.34.
No. 2 yellow corn in north central Colorado was mostly 4 to 6 cents higher, new crop mostly 5 cents higher and $3.53 to $3.63 per bushel.
In northeast Colorado, the country elevator corn bids were $3.04 to $3.32.
In east central Colorado, corn was $2.88 to $3.07.
In southeast Colorado, corn was $2.88 to $3.47.
In southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming, corn bids were $3.04 to $3.17 per bushel.
No. 2 yellow sorghum in southeast Colorado cash/new crop bids mostly 9 cents higher at $5.48 per cwt.
No. 1 yellow soybeans in southwest Nebraska were mostly 5 to 6 cents lower, new crop mostly 5 cents lower at $7.31 per bushel.
White millet in Colorado, southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming was $7.50 to $8.50 per cwt., mostly $8.
Sunflowers were $18 cwt.
In Denver and surrounding areas, corn was $3.55 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 $23. 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. In northeast Colorado, Wyoming and western Nebraska, light red kidneys were steady $35; in North Dakota and Minnesota, light red kidneys were steady $33.