Grain market close
The USDA Market News Service, Greeley, Colo., in the closing grain report for June 2, reported in futures trading that Chicago July soft red winter wheat was $5.08, down 7 1/4 cents; July corn, $3.24 1/4, up 1 cent; and July soybeans, $8.50 1/2, up 10 cents.
The export bid for direct Gulf delivery of No. 1 hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, rail, $5.45 3/4 to $5.65 3/4, down 11 3/4 cents; No. 2 soft red winter wheat, barge, $5.58 to $5.63, down 7 1/4 cents; No. 2 yellow corn, barge, $3.70 1/4, up 1 cent; No. 2 yellow sorghum, rail, $8.02 1/4 to $8.29, up 1 3/4 cents; No. 2 yellow sorghum, barge, unavailable; and No. 1 yellow soybeans, barge, $9.06 1/2 to $9.08 1/2, up 10 cents.
Colby, Kan., unit train wheat bid was $3.99.
In Denver and the surrounding area, hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, was $4.16 to $4.41.
No. 1 hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, north central Colorado, was mostly 12 cents lower, at $4.07 to $4.21.
In northeast Colorado, wheat was $3.81 to $3.96.
In east central Colorado, wheat was $3.91 to $4.21.
In southeast Colorado, wheat was $3.91 to $4.16.
In southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming, wheat bids were $3.81 to $3.98.
No. 2 yellow corn in north central Colorado was mostly 1 cent higher and $3.52 to $3.59 per bushel.
In northeast Colorado, the country elevator corn bids were $2.94 to $3.24.
In east central Colorado, corn was $2.89 to $2.94.
In southeast Colorado, corn was $3.04 to $3.34.
In southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming, corn bids were $2.94 to $3.24 per bushel.
No. 2 yellow sorghum in southeast Colorado was uneven, 8 to 2 cents higher at $5.79 to $6.05 per cwt.
No. 1 yellow soybeans in southwest Nebraska were 9 to 10 cents higher at $7.36 to $7.66 per bushel.
White millet in Colorado, southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming was $11.50 to $13 per cwt., mostly $12.
Sunflowers were $18.50 cwt.
In Denver and surrounding areas, corn was $3.59 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 $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.