Grain market close
The USDA Market News Service, Greeley, Colo., in the closing grain report for Jan. 28, reported in futures trading that Chicago March soft red winter wheat was $5.69 3/4, down 2 1/2 cents; March corn, $3.86 1/2, up 6 cents; and March soybeans, $8.95, down 2 1/4 cents.
The export bid for direct Gulf delivery of No. 1 hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, rail, $5.92 to $6.12, down 4 1/2 cents; No. 2 soft red winter wheat, barge, $6.84 3/4 to $6.89, up 12 1/2 to down 2 1/2 cents; No. 2 yellow corn, barge, $4.39 1/2 to $4.40 1/2, up 6 to 3 cents; No. 2 yellow sorghum, rail, $7.43 3/4 to $7.67, up 10 3/4 cents; No. 2 yellow sorghum, barge, unavailable; and No. 1 yellow soybeans, barge, $9.47 to $9.48, down 2 1/4 cents.
Colby, Kan., unit train wheat bid was $4.32.
In Denver and the surrounding area, hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, was $4.49 to $4.77.
No. 1 hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, north central Colorado, was mostly 5 cents lower, at $4.49 to $4.57.
In northeast Colorado, wheat was $4.12 to $4.22.
In east central Colorado, wheat was $4.22 to $4.45.
In southeast Colorado, wheat was $4.12 to $4.42.
In southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming, wheat bids were $4.12 to $4.27.
No. 2 yellow corn in north central Colorado was mostly 6 cents higher and $4.12 to $4.17 per bushel.
In northeast Colorado, the country elevator corn bids were $3.51 to $3.77.
In east central Colorado, corn was $3.52 to $3.72.
In southeast Colorado, corn was $3.57 to $3.92.
In southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming, corn bids were $3.57 to $3.67 per bushel.
No. 2 yellow sorghum in southeast Colorado was 10 to 11 cents higher at $5.48 to $5.93 per cwt.
No. 1 yellow soybeans in southwest Nebraska were 2 cents lower at $7.70 to $7.90 per bushel.
White millet in Colorado, southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming was $12 to $12.75 per cwt., mostly $12.
Sunflowers were $18.50 cwt.
In Denver and surrounding areas, corn was $4.12 to $4.17 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 $25 to $27. 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 $45.