Grain market close
The USDA Market News Service, Greeley, Colo., in the closing grain report for Jan. 14, reported in futures trading that Chicago March soft red winter wheat was $5.68 3/4 to $5.68 1/2, up 6 1/4 cents; March corn, $3.22 1/2 to $3.88 3/4, down 3/4 cents; and March soybeans, $9.40 1/2 to $9.41 1/2, down 3/4 cent.
The export bid for direct Gulf delivery of No. 1 hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, rail, $6.22 to $6.27, up 4 1/4 cents; No. 2 soft red winter wheat, barge, $6.68 1/2 to $6.83 1/2, up 6 1/4 cents; No. 2 yellow corn, barge, $4.38 to $4.39, down 1/2 cent; No. 2 yellow sorghum, rail, $7.48 1/4 to $7.71 1/2, down 3/4 cent; No. 2 yellow sorghum, barge, unavailable; and No. 1 yellow soybeans, barge, $9.92 1/4 to $9.94 1/4, unchanged.
Colby, Kan., unit train wheat bid was $4.47.
In Denver and the surrounding area, hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, was $4.64 to $4.92.
No. 1 hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, north central Colorado, was mostly 4 cents higher, at $4.64 to $4.72.
In northeast Colorado, wheat was $4.21 to $4.37.
In east central Colorado, wheat was $4.37 to $4.60.
In southeast Colorado, wheat was $4.27 to $4.52.
In southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming, wheat bids were $4.22 to $4.42.
No. 2 yellow corn in north central Colorado was mostly 1 cent lower and $4.14 to $4.19 per bushel.
In northeast Colorado, the country elevator corn bids were $3.54 to $3.79.
In east central Colorado, corn was $3.54 to $3.74.
In southeast Colorado, corn was $3.54 to $3.89.
In southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming, corn bids were $3.59 to $3.69 per bushel.
No. 2 yellow sorghum in southeast Colorado was 2 cents lower at $5.52 to $5.96 per cwt.
No. 1 yellow soybeans in southwest Nebraska were steady to 5 cents higher at $8.17 to $8.37 per bushel.
White millet in Colorado, southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming was $12 to $12.75 per cwt., mostly $12.50.
Sunflowers were $18.50 cwt.
In Denver and surrounding areas, corn was $4.14 to $4.19 per bushel. Barley was unavailable.
In northeast Colorado, Wyoming and western Nebraska, pinto beans were steady $32 per cwt; in North Dakota and Minnesota, pinto beans were steady $32 to $35. In North Dakota and Minnesota, black beans were steady $23 to $26. Great Northerns were steady at $35 in northeast Colorado, Wyoming and western Nebraska. In North Dakota and Minnesota, navy beans were steady $28 to $30. In northeast Colorado, Wyoming and western Nebraska, light red kidneys were steady $39; in North Dakota and Minnesota, light red kidneys were steady $38 to $44.