Grain market close
The USDA Market News Service, Greeley, Colo., in the closing grain report for Feb. 3, reported in futures trading that Chicago March soft red winter wheat was $5.55 1/2, up 1 3/4 cents; March corn, $3.78 3/4, up 2 1/2 cents; and March soybeans, $8.77, up 4 1/2 cents.
The export bid for direct Gulf delivery of No. 1 hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, rail, $5.76 3/4 to $5.96 3/4, up 1 1/4 cents; No. 2 soft red winter wheat, barge, $6.55 1/2 to $6.65 1/2, up 1 3/4 to down 8 1/4 cents; No. 2 yellow corn, barge, $4.28 3/4 to $4.33 3/4, down 5 1/2 to 2 1/2 cents; No. 2 yellow sorghum, rail, $7.30 to $7.53, down 4 1/4 cents; No. 2 yellow sorghum, barge, unavailable; and No. 1 yellow soybeans, barge, $9.26 to $9.30, up 1/2 to 4 1/2 cents.
Colby, Kan., unit train wheat bid was $4.17.
In Denver and the surrounding area, hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, was $4.42 to $4.62.
No. 1 hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, north central Colorado, was 3 cents lower to 8 cents higher, at $4.35 to $4.42.
In northeast Colorado, wheat was $3.95 to $4.07.
In east central Colorado, wheat was $4.07 to $4.37.
In southeast Colorado, wheat was $3.97 to $4.27.
In southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming, wheat bids were $3.97 to $4.15.
No. 2 yellow corn in north central Colorado was 2 cents lower and $3.99 to $4.08 per bushel.
In northeast Colorado, the country elevator corn bids were $3.44 to $3.69.
In east central Colorado, corn was $3.44 to $3.64.
In southeast Colorado, corn was $3.49 to $3.84.
In southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming, corn bids were $3.49 to $3.59 per bushel.
No. 2 yellow sorghum in southeast Colorado was 4 cents lower at $5.34 to $5.88 per cwt.
No. 1 yellow soybeans in southwest Nebraska were 5 to 14 cents higher at $7.52 to $7.72 per bushel.
White millet in Colorado, southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming was $11 to $12.75 per cwt., mostly $11.
Sunflowers were $18 cwt.
In Denver and surrounding areas, corn was $3.99 to $4.04 per bushel. Barley was steady at $7.50.
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.