Grain market close

The USDA Market News Service, Greeley, Colo., in the closing grain report for Aug. 21, reported in futures trading that Chicago September soft red winter wheat was $5.27 1/4, down 15 cents; September corn, $3.59 3/4, down 2 1/4 cents; and November soybeans, $8.86, down 7 1/4 cents.

The export bid for direct Gulf delivery of No. 1 hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, rail, $6.19 1/2, down 12 3/4 cents; No. 2 soft red winter wheat, barge, $5.72 1/4 to $5.82 1/4, down 15 cents; No. 2 yellow corn, barge, $4.11 3/4 to $4.14 3/4, down 2 1/4 cents; No. 2 yellow sorghum, rail, $7.75 1/2, down 4 cents; No. 2 yellow sorghum, barge, unavailable; and No. 2 yellow soybeans, barge, $9.06 to $9.11, down 6 1/4 to 2 1/4 cents.

Colby, Kan., unit train wheat bid was $5.03.

In Denver and the surrounding area, hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, was $4.90 to $5.05.

No. 1 hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, north central Colorado, was 12 to 13 cents lower, at $4.43 to $4.90.

In northeast Colorado, wheat was $4.74 to $4.89.

In east central Colorado, wheat was $4.79 to $4.90.

In southeast Colorado, wheat was $4.80 to $5.10.

In southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming, wheat bids were $4.75 to $4.86.

No. 2 yellow corn in north central Colorado was mostly 2 cents lower and $3.65 to $3.75 per bushel.

In northeast Colorado, the country elevator corn bids were $3.15 to $3.50.

In east central Colorado, corn was $3.05 to $3.40

In southeast Colorado, corn was $3.05 to $3.60.

In southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming, corn bids were $3.24 to $3.40 per bushel.

No. 2 yellow sorghum in southeast Colorado was 3 to 4 cents lower at $5.63 to $5.71 per cwt.

No. 1 yellow soybeans in southwest Nebraska were 7 to 12 cents lower at $7.56 to $7.64 per bushel.

White millet in Colorado, southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming was $7 to $8.25 per cwt., mostly $7.50.

Sunflowers were $18 cwt.

In Denver and surrounding areas, corn was $3.65 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.