Grain market close

The USDA Market News Service, Greeley, Colorado, in the closing grain report for Feb. 11, reported in futures trading that Chicago March soft red winter wheat was $5.42, down 10 cents; March corn, $3.79 3/4, down 2 cents; and March soybeans, $894 3/4,down 1/2 cent.

The export bid for direct Gulf delivery of No. 1 hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, rail, $5.78 1/4 to $5.98 1/4, down 4 1/4 cents; No. 2 soft red winter wheat, barge, $6.42, down 10 to 15 cents; No. 2 yellow corn, barge, $4.32 3/4, up 2 to down 4 cents; No. 2 yellow sorghum, rail, unavailable; No. 2 yellow sorghum, barge, unavailable; and No. 1 yellow soybeans, barge, $9.37 3/4, up 1 1/2 to 1/2 cents.

Colby, Kansas, unit train wheat bid was $4.20.

In Denver and the surrounding area, hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, was $4.43 to $4.63.

No. 1 hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, north central Colorado, was 4 to 5 cents lower, at $4.36 to $4.43.

In northeast Colorado, wheat was $3.98 to $4.08.

In east central Colorado, wheat was $4.08 to $4.38.

In southeast Colorado, wheat was $3.98 to $4.28.

In southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming, wheat bids were $3.98 to $4.16.

No. 2 yellow corn in north central Colorado was mostly 2 cents lower and $4 to $4.10 per bushel.

In northeast Colorado, the country elevator corn bids were $3.50 to $3.70.

In east central Colorado, corn was $3.45 to $3.70.

In southeast Colorado, corn was $3.52 to $3.87.

In southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming, corn bids were $3.51 to $3.61 per bushel.

No. 2 yellow sorghum in southeast Colorado was 3 to 4 cents higher at $5.36 to $5.89 per cwt.

No. 1 yellow soybeans in southwest Nebraska were steady to 1 cent higher at $7.59 to $7.80 per bushel.

White millet in Colorado, southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming was $11 to $12.75 per cwt., mostly $11.

Sunflowers were $18.50 cwt.

In Denver and surrounding areas, corn was $4 to $4.05 per bushel. Barley was unavailable.

On Feb. 10, 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.