Grain market close
The USDA Market News Service, Greeley, Colorado, in the closing grain report for June 16, reported in futures trading that Chicago July soft red winter wheat was $4.96, down 8 3/4 cent; July corn, $3.29, down 1/4 cents; and July soybeans, $8.67, up 34 1/2 cents.
The export bid for direct Gulf delivery of No. 1 hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, rail, $5.23 1/4 to $5.38 1/4, down 7 1/2 cents; No. 2 soft red winter wheat, barge, $5.44 to $5.46, down 8 3/4 cents; No. 2 yellow corn, barge, $3.75 to $3.80, down 1/4 to up 3/4 cent; No. 2 yellow sorghum, rail, $7.39 1/4 to $7.66, down 1/2 cent; No. 2 yellow sorghum, barge, unavailable; and No. 1 yellow soybeans, barge, $9.23 to $9.29, down 2 to up 1 cent.
Colby, Kan., unit train wheat bid was $3.86.
In Denver and the surrounding area, hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, was $4.03 to $4.38.
No. 1 hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, north central Colorado, was 8 cents lower, at $3.94 to $4.08.
In northeast Colorado, wheat was $3.68 to $3.85.
In east central Colorado, wheat was $3.78 to $4.08.
In southeast Colorado, wheat was $3.78 to $4.13.
In southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming, wheat bids were $3.73 to $3.88.
No. 2 yellow corn in north central Colorado was steady and $3.64 to $3.67 per bushel.
In northeast Colorado, the country elevator corn bids were $2.99 to $3.29.
In east central Colorado, corn was $2.94 to $2.99.
In southeast Colorado, corn was $3.09 to $3.39.
In southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming, corn bids were $3.04 to $3.29 per bushel.
No. 2 yellow sorghum in southeast Colorado was steady at $5.88 to $6.14 per cwt.
No. 1 yellow soybeans in southwest Nebraska were 2 cents lower to 2 cents higher at $7.52 to $7.83 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 $3.64 per bushel. Barley was unavailable.
In northeast Colorado, Wyoming and western Nebraska, pinto beans were unavailable; in North Dakota and Minnesota, pinto beans were steady $38 to $40. In North Dakota and Minnesota, black beans were steady $25 to $27. Great Northerns were unavailable 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 unavailable.