Grain market close
The USDA Market News Service, Greeley, Colo., in the closing grain report for March 24, reported in futures trading that Chicago March soft red winter wheat was $5.61 1/2, down 1 cent; March corn, $3.47 1/4, up 3 3/4 cents; and March soybeans, $8.86 3/4, up 2 3/4 cents.
The export bid for direct Gulf delivery of No. 1 hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, rail, $5.93 3/4 to $6.10 3/4, up 1 1/4 to down 8 3/4 cents; No. 2 soft red winter wheat, barge, $6.36 1/2 to $6.61 1/2, down 1 cent; No. 2 yellow corn, barge, $3.96 1/4 to $3.98 1/4, up 3 3/4 cents; No. 2 yellow sorghum, rail, $7.36 1/4 to $7.71 3/4, up 46 to 46 1/4 cents; No. 2 yellow sorghum, barge, unavailable; and No. 1 yellow soybeans, barge, $9.39 3/4 to $9.47 3/4, up 2 3/4 cents.
Colby, Kan., unit train wheat bid was $4.40.
In Denver and the surrounding area, hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, was $4.61 to $4.91.
No. 1 hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, north central Colorado, was mostly 1 cent higher, at $4.50 to $4.67.
In northeast Colorado, wheat was $4.26 to $4.41.
In east central Colorado, wheat was $4.26 to $4.56.
In southeast Colorado, wheat was $4.16 to $4.51.
In southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming, wheat bids were $4.26 to $4.41.
No. 2 yellow corn in north central Colorado was mostly 3 to 4 cents higher and $3.67 to $3.77 per bushel.
In northeast Colorado, the country elevator corn bids were $3.17 to $3.32.
In east central Colorado, corn was $3.12 to $3.17.
In southeast Colorado, corn was $3.17 to $3.52.
In southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming, corn bids were $3.17 to $3.47 per bushel.
No. 2 yellow sorghum in southeast Colorado was 14 cents higher at $4.95 to $5.66 per cwt.
No. 1 yellow soybeans in southwest Nebraska were 2 to 3 cents higher at $7.71 to $7.88 per bushel.
White millet in Colorado, southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming was $10.50 to $11.50 per cwt., mostly $10.50.
Sunflowers were $18.50 cwt.
In Denver and surrounding areas, corn was $3.67 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 $38. In North Dakota and Minnesota, black beans were steady $25 to $28. Great Northerns were steady at $37 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 $40; in North Dakota and Minnesota, light red kidneys were steady $38 to $45.