Grain market close
The USDA Market News Service, Greeley, Colo., in the closing grain report for April 14, reported in futures trading that Chicago March soft red winter wheat was $5.48 3/4, down 6 1/4 cents; March corn, $3.26, down 5 1/2 cents; and March soybeans, $8.47, down 7 1/4 cents.
The export bid for direct Gulf delivery of No. 1 hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, rail, $5.93 3/4 to $6.03 3/4, down 10 1/4 cents; No. 2 soft red winter wheat, barge, $6.13 3/4, down 6 1/4 cents; No. 2 yellow corn, barge, $3.77 to $3.81, down 7 1/2 to 10 1/2 cents; No. 2 yellow sorghum, rail, $7.42 3/4 to $7.78 1/2, down 10 cents; No. 2 yellow sorghum, barge, unavailable; and No. 1 yellow soybeans, barge, $8.97 to $9.06, down 7 1/4 to 6 1/4 cents.
Colby, Kan., unit train wheat bid was $4.38.
In Denver and the surrounding area, hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, was $4.56 to $4.84.
No. 1 hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, north central Colorado, was mostly 10 cents lower, at $4.43 to $4.56.
In northeast Colorado, wheat was $4.17 to $4.34.
In east central Colorado, wheat was $4.19 to $4.51.
In southeast Colorado, wheat was $4.09 to $4.49.
In southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming, wheat bids were $4.19 to $4.36.
No. 2 yellow corn in north central Colorado was mostly 5 to 6 cents lower and $3.36 to $3.54 per bushel.
In northeast Colorado, the country elevator corn bids were $2.94 to $3.11.
In east central Colorado, corn was $2.96 to $3.01.
In southeast Colorado, corn was $2.96 to $3.31.
In southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming, corn bids were $2.92 to $3.26 per bushel.
No. 2 yellow sorghum in southeast Colorado was 2 to 11 cents lower at $4.57 to $5.91 per cwt.
No. 1 yellow soybeans in southwest Nebraska were 7 cents lower at $7.37 to $7.48 per bushel.
White millet in Colorado, southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming was $10.50 to $11.75 per cwt., mostly $11 to $11.50.
Sunflowers were $18.50 cwt.
In Denver and surrounding areas, corn was $4.15 to $4.40 per bushel. Barley was steady at $7.50.
In northeast Colorado, Wyoming and western Nebraska, pinto beans were steady $35 to $36 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 to $38 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.