Grain market close
The USDA Market News Service, Greeley, Colo., in the closing grain report for Dec. 21, reported in futures trading that Chicago March soft red winter wheat was $5.16 to $5.17, up 1/2 cent; March corn, $3.78 1/2 to $3.77, down 3/4 cent; and March soybeans, $8.98 to $8.98 1/2, up 1 1/2 cents.
The export bid for direct Gulf delivery of No. 1 hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, rail, $5.62 3/4 to $5.77 3/4, down 6 3/4 cents; No. 2 soft red winter wheat, barge, $5.79 to $5.96, down 9 1/2 to 7 1/2 cents; No. 2 yellow corn, barge, $4.19 1/2 to $4.26 1/2, up 2 1/4 to 3 1/4 cents; No. 2 yellow sorghum, rail, $7.29 1/2 to $7.47 1/4, up 5 3/4 cents; No. 2 yellow sorghum, barge, unavailable; and No. 2 yellow soybeans, barge, $9.04 3/4 to $9.15 3/4, down 8 3/4 to 5 3/4 cents.
Grain prices are as of Dec. 21, due to closure of the markets due to the Christmas holiday.
Colby, Kan., unit train wheat bid was $4.61.
In Denver and the surrounding area, hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, was $4.83 to $4.98.
No. 1 hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, north central Colorado, was mostly 7 cents lower, at $4.41 to $4.83.
In northeast Colorado, wheat was $4.40 to $4.63.
In east central Colorado, wheat was $4.48 to $4.78.
In southeast Colorado, wheat was $4.23 to $4.58.
In southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming, wheat bids were $4.35 to $4.63.
No. 2 yellow corn in north central Colorado was 2 to 4 cents higher and $3.85 to $3.89 per bushel.
In northeast Colorado, the country elevator corn bids were $3.36 to $3.58.
In east central Colorado, corn was $3.42 to $3.49.
In southeast Colorado, corn was $3.13 to $3.76.
In southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming, corn bids were $3.36 to $3.59 per bushel.
No. 2 yellow sorghum in southeast Colorado was 7 cents higher at $5.16 to $5.70 per cwt.
No. 1 yellow soybeans in southwest Nebraska were 9 to 14 cents lower at $7.44 to $7.52 per bushel.
White millet in Colorado, southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming was $11.25 to $12 per cwt., mostly $12.
Sunflowers were $18 cwt.
In Denver and surrounding areas, corn was $3.89 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.