Grain market close

The USDA Market News Service, Greeley, Colorado, in the closing grain report for Nov. 16, reported in futures trading that Chicago December soft red winter wheat was $8.10 1/4; December corn, $5.71; and January 22 soybeans, $12.51 1/4.

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, $8.95 1/4 to $9.05 1/4, down 16 to 21 cents; No. 2 yellow corn, barge, $6.23 to $6.33, down 5 1/2 to 6 1/2 cents; No. 2 yellow sorghum, rail, unavailable; No. 2 yellow sorghum, barge, unavailable; and No. 1 yellow soybeans, barge, $13.21 1/4 to $13.22 1/4, change unavailable.

Colby, Kansas, unit train wheat bid was $7.75 3/4 to $7.92 3/4.

In Denver and the surrounding area, hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, was $8.01 to $8.31.

No. 1 hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, north central Colorado, was $8 3/4 to $8.30 3/4.

In northeast Colorado, wheat was $7.50 3/4 to $7.75 3/4.

In east central Colorado, wheat was $7.70 3/4 to $7.85 3/4.

In southeast Colorado, wheat was $7.80 3/4 to $8.25 3/4.

In southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming, wheat bids were $7.50 3/4 to $7.70 3/4.

No. 2 yellow corn in north central Colorado was $6.16 to $6.31.

In northeast Colorado, the country elevator corn bids were $5.71 to $5.61.

In east central Colorado, corn was $5.61 to $5.96.

In southeast Colorado, corn was $5.96 to $6.11.

In southwest Nebraska corn bids were $5.76 to $5.78 per bushel.

No. 2 yellow sorghum in southeast Colorado was $5.56 to $5.81.

No. 1 yellow soybeans in southwest Nebraska were $11.76 1/4 to $11.91 1/4.

White millet in Colorado, southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming was $16.50 to $22 per cwt.

Sunflowers were $32 per cwt.

In Denver and surrounding areas, corn was $6.16 to $6.31. Barley was unavailable.

In northeast Colorado, Wyoming and western Nebraska, pinto beans were steady $45 per cwt; in North Dakota and Minnesota, pinto beans were steady at $45 to $47. In North Dakota and Minnesota, black beans were steady $45 to $48. Great Northerns were steady at $30 in northeast Colorado, Wyoming and western Nebraska. In North Dakota and Minnesota, navy beans were steady $42. In northeast Colorado, Wyoming and western Nebraska, light red kidneys were $50; in North Dakota and Minnesota, light red kidneys were $44 to $45.