Grain market close

The USDA Market News Service, Greeley, Colo., in the closing grain report for Oct. 9, reported in futures trading that Chicago December soft red winter wheat was $5.15, down 6 cents; December corn, $3.64 1/2, down 3 3/4 cents; and November soybeans, $8.63, down 6 cents.

The export bid for direct Gulf delivery of No. 1 hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, rail, $5.79 1/2 to $5.99 1/2, down 4 3/4 cents; No. 2 soft red winter wheat, barge, $5.70 to $5.71, down 6 to 7 cents; No. 2 yellow corn, barge, $4.01 1/2 to $4.09 1/2, down 3 3/4 to up 3 1/4 cents; No. 2 yellow sorghum, rail, $7.13 1/2, down 6 1/2 cents; No. 2 yellow sorghum, barge, unavailable; and No. 2 yellow soybeans, barge, $8.63 to $8.72, down 6 to 2 cents.

Colby, Kan., unit train wheat bid was $4.65.

In Denver and the surrounding area, hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, was $4.65 to $4.80.

No. 1 hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, north central Colorado, was mostly 4 cents lower, at $4.59 to $4.65.

In northeast Colorado, wheat was $4.44 to $4.56.

In east central Colorado, wheat was $4.54 to $4.60.

In southeast Colorado, wheat was $4.50 to $4.75.

In southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming, wheat bids were $4.40 to $4.60.

No. 2 yellow corn in north central Colorado was mostly 3 to 4 cents lower and $3.74 to $3.80 per bushel.

In northeast Colorado, the country elevator corn bids were $3.25 to $3.49.

In east central Colorado, corn was $3.25 to $3.30.

In southeast Colorado, corn was $3.09 to $3.65.

In southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming, corn bids were $3.24 to $3.29 per bushel.

No. 2 yellow sorghum in southeast Colorado was 5 cents lower at $5.18 to $5.59 per cwt.

No. 1 yellow soybeans in southwest Nebraska were mostly 6 cents lower at $7.10 to $7.15 per bushel.

White millet in Colorado, southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming was $9 to $9.75 per cwt., mostly $9.25.

Sunflowers were $18 cwt.

In Denver and surrounding areas, corn was $3.80 per bushel. Barley was unavailable.

In northeast Colorado, Wyoming and western Nebraska, pinto beans were steady $22 per cwt; in North Dakota and Minnesota, pinto beans were steady $21 to $22. In North Dakota and Minnesota, black beans were steady $26. Great Northerns were steady at $22 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 $$34 to $35; in North Dakota and Minnesota, light red kidneys were steady $35.