Grain market close
The USDA Market News Service, Greeley, Colorado, in the closing grain report for May 19, reported in futures trading that Chicago July soft red winter wheat was $4.98 3/4, up 1 3/4 cents; July corn, $3.21 1/4, up 1/2 cent; and July soybeans, $8.42 1/2, down 2 1/2 cents.
The export bid for direct Gulf delivery of No. 1 hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, rail, $5.31 1/2 to $5.36 1/2, down 4 3/4 cents; No. 2 soft red winter wheat, barge, $5.55 3/4 to $5.60 3/4, up 1 3/4 cents; No. 2 yellow corn, barge, $3.69 1/4 to $3.72 1/4, up 3 1/2 to 2 1/2 cents; No. 2 yellow sorghum, rail, $7.97, up 1 cent; No. 2 yellow sorghum, barge, unavailable; and No. 1 yellow soybeans, barge, $8.91 1/2 to $8.96 1/2, down 1 1/2 to 2 1/2 cents.
Colby, Kan., unit train wheat bid was $3.93.
In Denver and the surrounding area, hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, was $4.07 to $4.32.
No. 1 hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, north central Colorado, was mostly 4 cents lower, at $4 to $4.07.
In northeast Colorado, wheat was $3.71 to $3.86.
In east central Colorado, wheat was $3.77 to $4.07.
In southeast Colorado, wheat was $3.82 to $4.07.
In southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming, wheat bids were $3.72 to $3.87.
No. 2 yellow corn in north central Colorado was mostly steady and $3.41 to $3.42 per bushel.
In northeast Colorado, the country elevator corn bids were $2.86 to $3.16.
In east central Colorado, corn was $2.82 to $2.91.
In southeast Colorado, corn was $3.01 to $3.26.
In southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming, corn bids were $2.86 to $3.21 per bushel.
No. 2 yellow sorghum in southeast Colorado was steady at $5.73 to $6.18 per cwt.
No. 1 yellow soybeans in southwest Nebraska were 2 to 3 cents lower at $7.28 to $7.255 per bushel.
White millet in Colorado, southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming was $11 to $12 per cwt., mostly $12.
Sunflowers were $18.50 cwt.
In Denver and surrounding areas, corn was $3.41 per bushel. Barley was unavailable.
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 $38 to $40. 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 $30 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.