Grain market close
The USDA Market News Service, Greeley, Colorado, in the closing grain report for Jan. 21, reported in futures trading that Chicago March soft red winter wheat was $5.81 1/2 to $5.83, up 1 1/2 cents; March corn, $3.87 1/2 to $3.86 3/4, up 1 1/4 cents; and March soybeans, $9.17 to $9.16 1/2, up 1/2 cent.
The export bid for direct Gulf delivery of No. 1 hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, rail, $6.25 to $6.30, up 5 3/4 cents; No. 2 soft red winter wheat, barge, $6.81 1/2 to $7.06 1/2, up 11 cents; No. 2 yellow corn, barge, $4.32 1/2 to $4.36 1/2, down 1 3/4 cents; No. 2 yellow sorghum, rail, $7.45 1/2 to $7.68 3/4, down 3 1/4 to 3 cents; No. 2 yellow sorghum, barge, unavailable; and No. 1 yellow soybeans, barge, $9.68 to $9.71, down 13 3/4 cents.
Colby, Kansas, unit train wheat bid was $4.50.
In Denver and the surrounding area, hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, was $4.67 to $4.95.
No. 1 hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, north central Colorado, was mostly 6 cents higher, at $4.67 to $4.75.
In northeast Colorado, wheat was $4.25 to $4.40.
In east central Colorado, wheat was $4.40 to $4.63.
In southeast Colorado, wheat was $4.30 to $4.55.
In southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming, wheat bids were $4.25 to $4.45.
No. 2 yellow corn in north central Colorado was mostly 1 cent lower and $4.13 to $4.18 per bushel.
In northeast Colorado, the country elevator corn bids were $3.52 to $3.79.
In east central Colorado, corn was $3.53 to $3.73.
In southeast Colorado, corn was $3.58 to $3.88.
In southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming, corn bids were $3.58 to $3.68 per bushel.
No. 2 yellow sorghum in southeast Colorado was 1 to 2 cents lower at $5.50 to $5.95 per cwt.
No. 1 yellow soybeans in southwest Nebraska were 13 to 14 cents lower at $7.91 to $8.11 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 $4.13 to $4.18 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.