Grain market close
The USDA Market News Service, Greeley, Colo., in the closing grain report for July 18, reported in futures trading that Chicago September soft red winter wheat was $4.94 1/2, down 3 1/4 cents; September corn, $3.47 1/4, up 1 cent; and August soybeans, $8.42 1/4, up 2 3/4 cents.
The export bid for direct Gulf delivery of No. 1 hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, rail, $5.52 3/4 to $5.72 3/4, down 3 cents; No. 2 soft red winter wheat, barge, $5.44 1/2 to $5.47 1/2, down 3 1/4 to 4 1/4 cents; No. 2 yellow corn, barge, $3.87 1/4, up 1 to down 1 cent; No. 2 yellow sorghum, rail, $6.44 3/4 to $6.62 1/2, up 2 1/4 cents; No. 2 yellow sorghum, barge, unavailable; and No. 2 yellow soybeans, barge, $8.88 1/4 to $8.96 1/4, up 2 3/4 cents.
Colby, Kan., unit train wheat bid was $4.58.
In Denver and the surrounding area, hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, was $4.41 to $4.61.
No. 1 hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, north central Colorado, was mostly 3 cents lower, at $3.95 to $4.43.
In northeast Colorado, wheat was $4.28 to $4.43.
In east central Colorado, wheat was $4.38 to $4.48.
In southeast Colorado, wheat was $4.33 to $4.68.
In southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming, wheat bids were $4.33 to $4.38.
No. 2 yellow corn in north central Colorado, cash and new crop bids were mostly 1 cent higher and $3.47 to $3.59 per bushel.
In northeast Colorado, the country elevator corn bids were $3.02 to $3.27.
In east central Colorado, corn was $2.92 to $3.02.
In southeast Colorado, corn was $2.92 to $3.42.
In southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming, corn bids were $3.04 to $3.27 per bushel.
No. 2 yellow sorghum in southeast Colorado was mostly 1 cent higher at $5.39 to $5.48 per cwt.
No. 1 yellow soybeans in southwest Nebraska were mostly 2 to 3 cents higher at $7.25 per bushel.
White millet in Colorado, southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming was $7.50 to $8.25 per cwt., mostly $7.50 to $8.
Sunflowers were $18 cwt.
In Denver and surrounding areas, corn was $3.47 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 $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.