Grain market close

The USDA Market News Service, Greeley, Colorado, in the closing grain report for July 11, reported in futures trading that Chicago September soft red winter wheat was $4.71 3/4, down 20 1/4 cent; September corn, $3.40, down 7 3/4 cents; and September soybeans, $8.33, down 22 3/4 cents.

The export bid for direct Gulf delivery of No. 1 hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, rail, $5.59, down 20 3/4 cents; No. 2 soft red winter wheat, barge, $5.21 3/4 to 5.28 3/4, down 20 1/4 cents; No. 2 yellow corn, barge, $3.80 to $3.85, down 7 3/4 to 6 3/4 cents; No. 2 yellow sorghum, rail, $6.48 3/4, down 13 1/4 cents; No. 2 yellow sorghum, barge, unavailable; and No. 2 yellow soybeans, barge, $8.87 to $8.88, down 22 3/4 to 23 3/4 cents.

Colby, Kansas, unit train wheat bid was $4.44.

In Denver and the surrounding area, hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, was $4.24 to $4.44.

No. 1 hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, north central Colorado, was 20 to 21 cents lower, at $3.76 to $4.29.

In northeast Colorado, wheat was $4.14 to $4.29.

In east central Colorado, wheat was $4.24 to $4.34.

In southeast Colorado, wheat was $4.19 to $4.54.

In southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming, wheat bids were $3.99 to $4.25.

No. 2 yellow corn in north central Colorado was 8 to 9 cents lower and $3.40 to $3.51 per bushel.

In northeast Colorado, the country elevator corn bids were $2.95 to $3.20.

In east central Colorado, corn was $2.85 to $2.95.

In southeast Colorado, corn was $2.76 to $3.33 1/2.

In southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming, corn bids were $2.97 to $3.15 per bushel.

No. 2 yellow sorghum in southeast Colorado was 14 to 15 cents higher at $5.14 to $5.36 per cwt.

No. 1 yellow soybeans in southwest Nebraska were 22 to 23 cents lower at $7.16 per bushel.

White millet in Colorado, southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming was $8 to $8.25 per cwt., mostly $8.25.

Sunflowers were $18 cwt.

In Denver and surrounding areas, corn was $3.40 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.