Grain market close
The USDA Market News Service, Greeley, Colo., in the closing grain report for Aug. 7, reported in futures trading that Chicago July soft red winter wheat was $5.68 1/4, down 6 1/4 cents; September corn, $3.70 3/4, down 1/4 cent; and November soybeans, $9.05 3/4, no comparisons.
The export bid for direct Gulf delivery of No. 1 hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, rail, $6.44 1/2 to $6.64 1/2, down 6 1/2 cents; No. 2 soft red winter wheat, barge, $6.23 1/4 to $6.28 1/4, down 6 1/4 cents; No. 2 yellow corn, barge, $4.20 3/4 to $4.24 3/4, down 1/4 cent; No. 2 yellow sorghum, rail, $6.86 1/2 to $7.04 1/2, down 1 1/2 to 1 1/4 cents; No. 2 yellow sorghum, barge, unavailable; and No. 2 yellow soybeans, barge, $9.35 3/4 to $9.37 3/4, up 14 1/4 cents.
Colby, Kan., unit train wheat bid was $5.45.
In Denver and the surrounding area, hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, was $5.30 to $5.50.
No. 1 hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, north central Colorado, was mostly 6 to 7 cents lower, at $4.86 to $5.35.
In northeast Colorado, wheat was $5.11 to $5.35.
In east central Colorado, wheat was $5.24 to $5.45.
In southeast Colorado, wheat was $5.25 to $5.55.
In southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming, wheat bids were $5.15 to $5.35.
No. 2 yellow corn in north central Colorado was mostly steady and $3.71 to $3.81 per bushel.
In northeast Colorado, the country elevator corn bids were $3.26 to $3.61.
In east central Colorado, corn was $3.16 to $3.51.
In southeast Colorado, corn was $3.16 to $3.71.
In southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming, corn bids were $3.30 to $3.51 per bushel.
No. 2 yellow sorghum in southeast Colorado was steady at $5.82 to $5.91 per cwt.
No. 1 yellow soybeans in southwest Nebraska were 12 to 13 cents higher at $7.78 to $7.88 per bushel.
White millet in Colorado, southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming was $7 to $8.25 per cwt., mostly $7.50 to 8.
Sunflowers were $18 cwt.
In Denver and surrounding areas, corn was $3.71 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.