Grain market close
The USDA Market News Service, Greeley, Colorado, in the closing grain report for March 1, reported in futures trading that Chicago March soft red winter wheat was $10.01 3/4; March corn, $7.39 3/4; and March soybeans, $17.05 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, $11.16 3/4 to $11.21 3/4, up 73 3/4 cents; No. 2 yellow corn, barge, $8.22 3/4 to $8.25 3/4, up 35 1/4 to 37 1/4 cents; No. 2 yellow sorghum, rail, unavailable; No. 2 yellow sorghum, barge, unavailable; and No. 1 yellow soybeans, barge, $17.93 1/2 to $17.96 1/2, up 61 1/4 cents.
Colby, Kansas, unit train wheat bid was $9.58 to $9.68.
In Denver and the surrounding area, hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, was $9.73 to $10.
No. 1 hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, north central Colorado, was $9.73 to $10.
In northeast Colorado, wheat was $9.28 to $9.44.
In east central Colorado, wheat was $9.63 to $9.88.
In southeast Colorado, wheat was $9.43 to $10.64.
In southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming, wheat bids were $9.28 to $9.52.
No. 2 yellow corn in north central Colorado was $7.65 3/4 to $7.75 3/4.
In northeast Colorado, the country elevator corn bids were $7.10 3/4 to $7.44 3/4.
In east central Colorado, corn was $7.25 3/4 to $7.45 3/4.
In southeast Colorado, corn was $7.45 3/4.
In southwest Nebraska corn bids were $7.10 3/4 to $7.24 3/4 per bushel.
No. 2 yellow sorghum in southeast Colorado was $7.05 3/4 to $7.40 3/4.
No. 1 yellow soybeans in southwest Nebraska were $16 to $16.15.
White millet in Colorado, southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming was $13.25 to $14.50 per cwt.
Sunflowers were $32 per cwt.
In Denver and surrounding areas, corn was $7.66 to $7.76. Barley was unavailable.
In northeast Colorado, Wyoming and western Nebraska, pinto beans were steady $44 per cwt; in North Dakota and Minnesota, pinto beans were steady at $42 to $45. In North Dakota and Minnesota, black beans were steady $45 to $46. 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 $50.