Grain market close
The USDA Market News Service, Greeley, Colorado, in the closing grain report for Dec. 1, reported in futures trading that Chicago December soft red winter wheat was $5.65 1/2; December corn, $4.14 3/4; and January soybeans, $11.62.
The export bid for direct Gulf delivery of No. 1 hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, rail, unavailable; No. 2 soft red winter wheat, barge, $6.45 1/2 to $6.75 1/4, down 4 3/4 to 9 cents; No. 2 yellow corn, barge, $4.83 3/4 to $4.96 3/4, down 3 to up 2 cents; No. 2 yellow sorghum, rail, $6.14 3/4 to $6.34 3/4, down 5 cents; No. 2 yellow sorghum, barge, unavailable; and No. 1 yellow soybeans, barge, $12.31 to $12.43, down 6 1/2 to up 5 cents.
Colby, Kansas, unit train wheat bid was $4.94 to $5.01.
In Denver and the surrounding area, hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, was $5.22 1/2.
No. 1 hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, north central Colorado, was $5.22 1/2.
In northeast Colorado, wheat was $4.87 1/2.
In east central Colorado, wheat was unavailable.
In southeast Colorado, wheat was unavailable.
In southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming, wheat bids were $4.75 to $4.89.
No. 2 yellow corn in north central Colorado was unavailable.
In northeast Colorado, the country elevator corn bids were $4.09 3/4.
In east central Colorado, corn was unavailable.
In southeast Colorado, corn was unavailable.
In southwest Nebraska corn bids were $4.07 3/4 to $4.11 3/4 per bushel.
No. 2 yellow sorghum in southeast Colorado was unavailable.
No. 1 yellow soybeans in southwest Nebraska were unavailable.
White millet in Colorado, southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming was $20 to $23 per cwt.
Sunflowers were $18.75.
In Denver and surrounding areas, corn was unavailable. Barley was unavailable.
In northeast Colorado, Wyoming and western Nebraska, pinto beans were steady $23 per cwt; in North Dakota and Minnesota, pinto beans were steady at $23 to $26. In North Dakota and Minnesota, black beans were steady $23 to $25. Great Northerns were steady at $30 in northeast Colorado, Wyoming and western Nebraska. In North Dakota and Minnesota, navy beans were steady $26 to $27. In northeast Colorado, Wyoming and western Nebraska, light red kidneys were unavailable; in North Dakota and Minnesota, light red kidneys were steady $40 to $43.