The USDA Market News Service, Greeley, Colorado, in the closing grain report for Aug. 2, reported in futures trading that Chicago September soft red winter wheat was $7.74 3/4; September corn, $5.91 1/4; and August soybeans, $15.69 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, $8.44 3/4 to $8.49 3/4, down 25 1/2 censt; No. 2 yellow corn, barge, $7.11 1/4, down 15 3/4 cents; No. 2 yellow sorghum, rail, unavailable; No. 2 yellow sorghum, barge, unavailable; and No. 1 yellow soybeans, barge, $16.61 1/4 to $16.69 1/4, down 25 cents.
Colby, Kansas, unit train wheat bid was $7.99 1/4.
In Denver and the surrounding area, hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, was $8.02 to $8.62.
No. 1 hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, north central Colorado, was $8.02 1/4 to $8.62 1/4.
In northeast Colorado, wheat was $7.72 1/4 to $8.85 1/4.
In east central Colorado, wheat was $7.87 1/4.
In southeast Colorado, wheat was $7.62 1/4 to $8.38 1/4.
In southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming, wheat bids were $7.75 1/4 to $7.80 1/4.
No. 2 yellow corn in north central Colorado was $7.84 1/4 to $7.91 1/4.
In northeast Colorado, the country elevator corn bids were $6.41 1/4 to $7.35 1/4.
In east central Colorado, corn was $6.16 1/4 to $7.31 1/4.
In southeast Colorado, corn was $7.71 1/4 to $7.91 1/4.
In southwest Nebraska corn bids were $6.91 1/4 to $7.11 1/4 per bushel.
No. 2 yellow sorghum in southeast Colorado was $5.56 1/4 to $6.21 1/4.
No. 1 yellow soybeans in southwest Nebraska were $14.06 1/2 to $14.16 1/2.
White millet in Colorado, southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming was $12.50 to $15.50 per cwt.
Sunflowers were $27 per cwt.
In Denver and surrounding areas, corn was $7.84 to $7.91. 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. In North Dakota and Minnesota, black beans were steady $45. Great Northerns were steady at $35 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 unavailable; in North Dakota and Minnesota, light red kidneys were $54.