Grain market close

The USDA Market News Service, Greeley, Colorado, in the closing grain report for June 1, reported in futures trading that Chicago July soft red winter wheat was $6.93 1/2; July corn, $6.88 3/4; and July soybeans, $15.48 1/2.

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, $7.48 1/2 to $7.93 1/4, up 19 to 20 cents; No. 2 yellow corn, barge, $6.57 to $7.75 3/4, up 24 to 32 cents; No. 2 yellow sorghum, rail, $7.12 to $8.37 3/4, up 32 1/2 to 32 cents; No. 2 yellow sorghum, barge, unavailable; and No. 1 yellow soybeans, barge, $14.77 to $16.28 1/2, up 18 to 24 1/4 cents.

Colby, Kansas, unit train wheat bid was $6.03 to $6.13.

In Denver and the surrounding area, hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, was $6.18 to $6.68.

No. 1 hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, north central Colorado, was $6.17 1/2 to $6.67 1/2.

In northeast Colorado, wheat was $5.62 1/2 to $5.92 1/2.

In east central Colorado, wheat was $5.97 1/2 to $6.27 1/2.

In southeast Colorado, wheat was $6.12 1/2 to $6.37 1/2.

In southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming, wheat bids were $5.62 1/2 to $5.92 1/2.

No. 2 yellow corn in north central Colorado was $7.53 3/4 to $7.68 3/4.

In northeast Colorado, the country elevator corn bids were $7.08 3/4 to $7.38 3/4.

In east central Colorado, corn was $7.13 3/4 to $7.23 3/4.

In southeast Colorado, corn was $7.28 3/4 to $7.53 3/4.

In southwest Nebraska corn bids were $6.98 3/4 to $7.10 3/4 per bushel.

No. 2 yellow sorghum in southeast Colorado was $6.28 3/4.

No. 1 yellow soybeans in southwest Nebraska were $14.63 1/2 to $14.68 1/2.

White millet in Colorado, southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming was $32 to $34 per cwt.

Sunflowers were $29 per cwt.

In Denver and surrounding areas, corn was $7.54 to $7.69. Barley was unavailable.

In northeast Colorado, Wyoming and western Nebraska, pinto beans were steady $35 per cwt; in North Dakota and Minnesota, pinto beans were steady at $38. In North Dakota and Minnesota, black beans were steady $40. Great Northerns were steady at $30 in northeast Colorado, Wyoming and western Nebraska. In North Dakota and Minnesota, navy beans were steady $33. In northeast Colorado, Wyoming and western Nebraska, light red kidneys were unavailable; in North Dakota and Minnesota, light red kidneys were $47.