Grain market close
The USDA Market News Service, Greeley, Colorado, in the closing grain report for April 19, reported in futures trading that Chicago May soft red winter wheat was $10.99; May corn, $8.04; and May soybeans, $17.16 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, $11.74 to $12.19, down 21 1/2 cents; No. 2 yellow corn, barge, $8.94 to $9.19, down 9 1/4 cents; No. 2 yellow sorghum, rail, unavailable; No. 2 yellow sorghum, barge, unavailable; and No. 1 yellow soybeans, barge, $18.28 1/2 to $18.44 1/2, up 1 3/4 cents.
Colby, Kansas, unit train wheat bid was $11.01 1/4.
In Denver and the surrounding area, hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, was $11.16 to $11.72.
No. 1 hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, north central Colorado, was $11.16 1/4 to $11.71 1/2.
In northeast Colorado, wheat was $10.61 1/4 to $10.81.
In east central Colorado, wheat was $11.01 1/4 to $11.21 1/4.
In southeast Colorado, wheat was $10.86 1/2 to $11.31 1/2.
In southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming, wheat bids were $10.66 1/4 to $10.91 1/4.
No. 2 yellow corn in north central Colorado was $8.54 3/4 to $8.59 3/4.
In northeast Colorado, the country elevator corn bids were $7.84 3/4 to $8.23 3/4.
In east central Colorado, corn was $8.09 3/4 to $8.24 3/4.
In southeast Colorado, corn was $8.19 to $8.69.
In southwest Nebraska corn bids were $7.84 3/4 per bushel.
No. 2 yellow sorghum in southeast Colorado was $7.39 to $7.99.
No. 1 yellow soybeans in southwest Nebraska were $15.86 3/4 to $16.06 3/4.
White millet in Colorado, southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming was $15.50 to $17 per cwt.
Sunflowers were $38.50 per cwt.
In Denver and surrounding areas, corn was $8.55 to $8.60. 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 $45 to $47. In North Dakota and Minnesota, black beans were steady $45. Great Northerns were steady at $30 to $33 in northeast Colorado, Wyoming and western Nebraska. In North Dakota and Minnesota, navy beans were steady $44. In northeast Colorado, Wyoming and western Nebraska, light red kidneys were $50; in North Dakota and Minnesota, light red kidneys were $50.