Grain market close
The USDA Market News Service, Greeley, Colo., in the closing grain report for April 7, reported in futures trading that Chicago March soft red winter wheat was $5.49 1/4, down 6 1/2 cents; March corn, $3.31 1/2, up 3 3/4 cents; and March soybeans, $8.54 3/4, down 3/4 cent.
The export bid for direct Gulf delivery of No. 1 hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, rail, $5.65 to $6.05, down 1 3/4 cents; No. 2 soft red winter wheat, barge, $6.09 1/4 to $6.14 1/4, down 6 1/2 cents; No. 2 yellow corn, barge, $3.84 1/2 to $3.91 1/2, up 3 3/4 cents; No. 2 yellow sorghum, rail, $7.43 3/4 to $7.52 3/4, up 6 3/4 cents; No. 2 yellow sorghum, barge, unavailable; and No. 1 yellow soybeans, barge, $9.04 3/4 to $9.12 3/4, down 3/4 to 2 3/4 cents.
Colby, Kan., unit train wheat bid was $4.18.
In Denver and the surrounding area, hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, was $4.45 to $4.73.
No. 1 hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, north central Colorado, was mostly 3 cents lower, at $4.23 to $4.45
In northeast Colorado, wheat was $4.08 to $4.23.
In east central Colorado, wheat was $4.08 to $4.40.
In southeast Colorado, wheat was $3.98 to $4.38.
In southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming, wheat bids were $4.08 to $4.25.
No. 2 yellow corn in north central Colorado was mostly 4 cents higher and $3.42 to $3.60 per bushel.
In northeast Colorado, the country elevator corn bids were $3.01 to $3.16.
In east central Colorado, corn was $2.97 to $3.07.
In southeast Colorado, corn was $3.02 to $3.37.
In southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming, corn bids were $2.99 to $3.32 per bushel.
No. 2 yellow sorghum in southeast Colorado was 7 cents higher at $4.68 to $5.66 per cwt.
No. 1 yellow soybeans in southwest Nebraska were 1 cent lower at $7.44 to $7.56 per bushel.
White millet in Colorado, southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming was $10.50 to $11.75 per cwt., mostly $10.50 to $11.50.
Sunflowers were $18.50 cwt.
In Denver and surrounding areas, corn was $3.42 per bushel. Barley was unavailable.
In northeast Colorado, Wyoming and western Nebraska, pinto beans were steady $34 to $35 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 $35. In northeast Colorado, Wyoming and western Nebraska, light red kidneys were unavailable; in North Dakota and Minnesota, light red kidneys were steady $38 to $45.