Grain market close

The USDA Market News Service, Greeley, Colo., in the closing grain report for March 3, reported in futures trading that Chicago March soft red winter wheat was $5.28 3/4, up 2 1/2 cents; March corn, $3.81 3/4, up 7 cents; and March soybeans, $8.93, up 2 1/2 cents.

The export bid for direct Gulf delivery of No. 1 hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, rail, $5.62 to $5.82, up 1 cent; No. 2 soft red winter wheat, barge, $6.28 3/4, up 2 1/2 cents; No. 2 yellow corn, barge, $4.33 3/4 to $4.36 3/4, up 7 cents; No. 2 yellow sorghum, rail, $7.53 1/4 to $7.58 1/2, up 12 3/4 to 12 1/2 cents; No. 2 yellow sorghum, barge, unavailable; and No. 1 yellow soybeans, barge, $9.46 to $9.51, up 2 1/2 to 1 1/2 cents.

Colby, Kan., unit train wheat bid was $4.

In Denver and the surrounding area, hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, was $4.28 to $4.48.

No. 1 hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, north central Colorado, was mostly steady to 1 cent higher, at $4.18 to $4.30.

In northeast Colorado, wheat was $3.84 to $4.02.

In east central Colorado, wheat was $3.93 to $4.23.

In southeast Colorado, wheat was $3.83 to $4.18.

In southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming, wheat bids were $3.87 to $4.05.

No. 2 yellow corn in north central Colorado was 5 to 6 cents higher and $4.05 to $4.16 per bushel.

In northeast Colorado, the country elevator corn bids were $3.51 to $3.76.

In east central Colorado, corn was $3.46 to $3.66.

In southeast Colorado, corn was $3.46 to $3.86.

In southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming, corn bids were $3.57 to $3.66 per bushel.

No. 2 yellow sorghum in southeast Colorado was 9 cents higher at $5.38 to $5.91 per cwt.

No. 1 yellow soybeans in southwest Nebraska were 2 to 3 cents higher at $7.88 to $7.98 per bushel.

White millet in Colorado, southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming was $11 to $12.25 per cwt., mostly $11.

Sunflowers were $18.50 cwt.

In Denver and surrounding areas, corn was $4.16 per bushel. Barley was unavailable.

In northeast Colorado, Wyoming and western Nebraska, pinto beans were steady $32 to $38 per cwt; in North Dakota and Minnesota, pinto beans were steady $34. 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.