Grain market close

The USDA Market News Service, Greeley, Colorado, in the closing grain report for Feb. 24, reported in futures trading that Chicago March soft red winter wheat was $5.36 1/4, down 14 3/4 cents; March corn, $3.72 1/4, down 4 3/4 cents; and March soybeans, $8.74 1/4, down 16 1/4 cents.

The export bid for direct Gulf delivery of No. 1 hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, rail, $5.62 1/4 to $5.82 1/4, down 16 1/4 cents; No. 2 soft red winter wheat, barge, $6.36 1/4, down 14 3/4 cents; No. 2 yellow corn, barge, $4.22 1/4, down 4 3/4 cents; No. 2 yellow sorghum, rail, $7.36 1/4, down 6 1/2 cents; No. 2 yellow sorghum, barge, unavailable; and No. 1 yellow soybeans, barge, $9.27 1/4 to $9.34 1/4, down 16 1/4 cents.

Colby, Kansas, unit train wheat bid was $4.01.

In Denver and the surrounding area, hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, was $4.27 to $4.47.

No. 1 hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, north central Colorado, was 16 to 17 cents lower, at 4.21 to $4.27.

In northeast Colorado, wheat was $3.87 to $3.98.

In east central Colorado, wheat was $3.92 to $4.22.

In southeast Colorado, wheat was $3.82 to $4.12.

In southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming, wheat bids were $3.87 to $4.02.

No. 2 yellow corn in north central Colorado was mostly 5 cents lower and $4 to $4.07 per bushel.

In northeast Colorado, the country elevator corn bids were $3.42 to $3.67.

In east central Colorado, corn was $3.37 to $3.62.

In southeast Colorado, corn was $3.42 to $3.77.

In southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming, corn bids were $3.47 to $3.53 per bushel.

No. 2 yellow sorghum in southeast Colorado was 9 cents lower at $5.21 to $5.75 per cwt.

No. 1 yellow soybeans in southwest Nebraska were 15 to 16 cents lower at $7.49 to $7.74 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 $4.07 per bushel. Barley was unavailable.

In northeast Colorado, Wyoming and western Nebraska, pinto beans were steady $34 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 $37 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 to $40; in North Dakota and Minnesota, light red kidneys were steady $38 to $45.