Grain market close
The USDA Market News Service, Greeley, Colorado, in the closing grain report for March 8, reported in futures trading that Chicago March soft red winter wheat was $12.73; March corn, $7.54 1/2; and March soybeans, $17.04 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, $13.71 1/2 to $13.88, down 42 1/2 to 15 1/4 cents; No. 2 yellow corn, barge, $8.53 to $8.63, up 2 1/4 to 1/4 cents; No. 2 yellow sorghum, rail, unavailable; No. 2 yellow sorghum, barge, unavailable; and No. 1 yellow soybeans, barge, $18.14 3/4 to $18.16 3/4, up 40 1/4 to 32 1/4 cents.
Colby, Kansas, unit train wheat bid was $10.52 1/2 to $10.53 1/4.
In Denver and the surrounding area, hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, was $10.48 to $11.80.
No. 1 hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, north central Colorado, was $10.47 1/2 to $11.79 1/2.
In northeast Colorado, wheat was $10.02 1/2 to $11.05 1/2.
In east central Colorado, wheat was $10.52 1/2 to $11.08 1/4.
In southeast Colorado, wheat was $10.52 1/2 to $10.99 1/2.
In southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming, wheat bids were $10.73 1/4 to $10.94 1/2.
No. 2 yellow corn in north central Colorado was $7.56.
In northeast Colorado, the country elevator corn bids were $7.11 to $7.45.
In east central Colorado, corn was $7.26 to $7.41.
In southeast Colorado, corn was $7.68 to $8.08.
In southwest Nebraska corn bids were $7.01 to $7.38 per bushel.
No. 2 yellow sorghum in southeast Colorado was $7.48 to $7.53.
No. 1 yellow soybeans in southwest Nebraska were $15.50 3/4 to $16.04 3/4.
White millet in Colorado, southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming was $13.25 to $15 per cwt.
Sunflowers were $32.50 per cwt.
In Denver and surrounding areas, corn was $7.56. 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.