Grain market close
The USDA Market News Service, Greeley, Colo., in the closing grain report for Dec. 18, reported in futures trading that Chicago March soft red winter wheat was $5.33 to $5.32 1/4, down 3 cents; March corn, $3.85 to $3.85 1/4, up 1 1/4 cents; and January soybeans, $9.06 3/4, up 2 cents.
The export bid for direct Gulf delivery of No. 1 hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, rail, $5.97 3/4 to $6.10 3/4, down 2 1/2 to up 1/2 cent; No. 2 soft red winter wheat, barge, unavailable; No. 2 yellow corn, barge, $4.29 1/2 to $4.13 1/2, up 1 1/2 cents; No. 2 yellow sorghum, rail, unavailable; No. 2 yellow sorghum, barge, $7.42 to $7.59 3/4, up 2 3/4 to 2 1/2 cents; and No. 2 yellow soybeans, barge, $9.24 3/4 to $9.27 3/4, up 3 cents.
Colby, Kan., unit train wheat bid was $4.69.
In Denver and the surrounding area, hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, was $4.79 to $5.15.
No. 1 hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, north central Colorado, was 5 cents lower, at $4.56 to $4.97.
In northeast Colorado, wheat was $4.54 to $4.77.
In east central Colorado, wheat was $4.62 to $4.92.
In southeast Colorado, wheat was $4.37 to $4.72.
In southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming, wheat bids were $4.49 to $4.77.
No. 2 yellow corn in north central Colorado was mostly 1 to 2 cents higher and $3.93 to $3.96 per bushel.
In northeast Colorado, the country elevator corn bids were $3.43 to $3.65.
In east central Colorado, corn was $3.42 to $3.56.
In southeast Colorado, corn was $3.20 to $3.83.
In southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming, corn bids were $3.43 to $3.66 per bushel.
No. 2 yellow sorghum in southeast Colorado was 3 to 4 cents higher at $5.29 to $5.82 per cwt.
No. 1 yellow soybeans in southwest Nebraska were steady to 3 cents higher at $7.65 to $7.70 per bushel.
White millet in Colorado, southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming was $11 to $12 per cwt., mostly $12.
Sunflowers were $18 cwt.
In Denver and surrounding areas, corn was $3.96 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 $22. 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 $21 to $22. In northeast Colorado, Wyoming and western Nebraska, light red kidneys were steady $35; in North Dakota and Minnesota, light red kidneys were steady $34 to $35.