Grain market close

The USDA Market News Service, Greeley, Colorado, in the closing grain report for Sept. 18, reported in futures trading that Chicago December soft red winter wheat was $5.10 1/2, up 4 1/4 cents; December corn, $3.43 1/4, down 4 3/4 cents; and November soybeans, $8.14, down 9 1/2 cents.

The export bid for direct Gulf delivery of No. 1 hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, rail, $5.76, up 3 1/4 cents; No. 2 soft red winter wheat, barge, $5.40 1/2 to $5.41 1/2, up 4 1/4 cents; No. 2 yellow corn, barge, $3.75 1/4 to $3.76 1/4, down 2 3/4 to 4 3/4 cents; No. 2 yellow sorghum, rail, $7.20, down 8 1/2 cents; No. 2 yellow sorghum, barge, unavailable; and No. 2 yellow soybeans, barge, $8.08 to $8.09, down 8 1/2 to 9 1/2 cents.

Colby, Kan., unit train wheat bid was $4.58.

In Denver and the surrounding area, hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, was $4.46 to $4.71.

No. 1 hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, north central Colorado, was mostly 3 cents lower, at $4.37 to $4.56.

In northeast Colorado, wheat was $4.33 to $4.55.

In east central Colorado, wheat was $4.44 to $4.51.

In southeast Colorado, wheat was $4.46 to $4.71.

In southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming, wheat bids were $4.36 to $4.56.

No. 2 yellow corn in north central Colorado was mostly 4 cents higher and $3.58 to $3.62 per bushel.

In northeast Colorado, the country elevator corn bids were $3 to $3.28.

In east central Colorado, corn was $3.03 to $3.08.

In southeast Colorado, corn was $2.88 to $3.43.

In southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming, corn bids were $2.93 to $3.13 per bushel.

No. 2 yellow sorghum in southeast Colorado was 9 cents lower at $4.79 to $5.23 per cwt.

No. 1 yellow soybeans in southwest Nebraska were 9 to 10 cents lower at $6.64 to $6.66 per bushel.

White millet in Colorado, southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming was $8 to $9 per cwt., mostly $8.

Sunflowers were $15 to $18 cwt.

In Denver and surrounding areas, corn was $3.85 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 $22 to $23. In North Dakota and Minnesota, black beans were steady $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.