Grain market close

The USDA Market News Service, Greeley, Colo., in the closing grain report for Sept. 4, reported in futures trading that Chicago September soft red winter wheat was $5.02 3/4, down 15 3/4 cents; September corn, $3.54 1/2, up 3 1/2 cents; and November soybeans, $8.44 1/4, up 3/4 cent.

The export bid for direct Gulf delivery of No. 1 hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, rail, $5.88 to $5.97, down 15 to 16 1/4 cents; No. 2 soft red winter wheat, barge, $5.62 3/4 to $5.66 1/2, down 10 3/4 to 12 cents; No. 2 yellow corn, barge, $4.09 1/2 to $4.13 1/2, up 3 1/2 to 6 1/2 cents; No. 2 yellow sorghum, rail, $7.64 3/4, up 5 3/4 cents; No. 2 yellow sorghum, barge, unavailable; and No. 2 yellow soybeans, barge, $8.49 1/4 to $8.59 1/4, down 14 1/4 to 15 1/4 cents.

Colby, Kan., unit train wheat bid was $4.72.

In Denver and the surrounding area, hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, was $4.67 to $4.92.

No. 1 hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, north central Colorado, was mostly 11 to 16 cents lower, at $4.57 to $4.77.

In northeast Colorado, wheat was $4.59 to $4.77.

In east central Colorado, wheat was $4.65 to $4.72.

In southeast Colorado, wheat was $4.92.

In southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming, wheat bids were $4.60 to $4.77.

No. 2 yellow corn in north central Colorado was mostly 2 to 19 cents higher and $3.83 per bushel.

In northeast Colorado, the country elevator corn bids were $3.20 to $3.53.

In east central Colorado, corn was $3.33.

In southeast Colorado, corn was $3.13 to $3.68.

In southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming, corn bids were $3.18 to $3.38 per bushel.

No. 2 yellow sorghum in southeast Colorado was mostly 5 cents higher at $5.41 to $5.68 per cwt.

No. 1 yellow soybeans in southwest Nebraska were steady to 1 cent higher at $6.99 to $7.04 per bushel.

White millet in Colorado, southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming was $7 to $8.25 per cwt., mostly $5.25.

Sunflowers were $18 cwt.

In Denver and surrounding areas, corn was $3.13 per bushel. Barley was unavailable.

In northeast Colorado, Wyoming and western Nebraska, pinto beans were steady $20 to $21 per cwt; in North Dakota and Minnesota, pinto beans were steady $22 to $23. In North Dakota and Minnesota, black beans were steady to $1 higher $26. Great Northerns were steady at $21 in northeast Colorado, Wyoming and western Nebraska. In North Dakota and Minnesota, navy beans were steady $22. In northeast Colorado, Wyoming and western Nebraska, light red kidneys were steady $35; in North Dakota and Minnesota, light red kidneys were steady $35.