Grain market close
The USDA Market News Service, Greeley, Colo., in the closing grain report for Feb. 18, reported in futures trading that Chicago March soft red winter wheat was $5.66 3/4, up 24 cents; March corn, $3.83, up 5 1/4 cents; and March soybeans, $8.92 1/4, down 1 1/2 cents.
The export bid for direct Gulf delivery of No. 1 hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, rail, $5.95 3/4 to $6.15 3/4, up 20 1/4 cents; No. 2 soft red winter wheat, barge, $6.66 3/4, up 24 cents; No. 2 yellow corn, barge, $4.33 to $4.36, up 5 1/4 cents; No. 2 yellow sorghum, rail, $7.55 3/4, up 8 cents; No. 2 yellow sorghum, barge, unavailable; and No. 1 yellow soybeans, barge, $9.45 1/4 to $9.49 1/4, down 1 1/2 cents.
Colby, Kan., unit train wheat bid was $4.38.
In Denver and the surrounding area, hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, was $4.61 to $4.81.
No. 1 hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, north central Colorado, was mostly 20 cents higher, at $4.54 to $4.61.
In northeast Colorado, wheat was $4.21 to $4.31.
In east central Colorado, wheat was $4.26 to $4.56.
In southeast Colorado, wheat was $4.16 to $4.46.
In southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming, wheat bids were $4.21 to $4.36.
No. 2 yellow corn in north central Colorado was mostly 5 cents higher and $4.12 to $4.15 per bushel.
In northeast Colorado, the country elevator corn bids were $3.53 to $3.78.
In east central Colorado, corn was $3.48 to $3.73.
In southeast Colorado, corn was $3.53 to $3.88.
In southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming, corn bids were $3.58 to $3.64 per bushel.
No. 2 yellow sorghum in southeast Colorado was 9 cents higher at $5.41 to $5.95 per cwt.
No. 1 yellow soybeans in southwest Nebraska were 1 to 2 cents lower at $7.67 to $7.92 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 $4.13 to $4.15 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 $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.