The USDA Market News Service, Greeley, Colorado, in the closing grain report for Aug. 9, reported in futures trading that Chicago September soft red winter wheat was $7.81 1/2; September corn, $6.15 1/2; and September soybeans, $16.93 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, $8.51 1/2 to $8.56 1/2, up 1 3/4 cents; No. 2 yellow corn, barge, $7.35 1/2, up 7 cents; No. 2 yellow sorghum, rail, unavailable; No. 2 yellow sorghum, barge, unavailable; and No. 1 yellow soybeans, barge, $17.85 1/4 to $17.93 1/4, up 73 3/4 cents.
Colby, Kansas, unit train wheat bid was $8.01 3/4.
In Denver and the surrounding area, hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, was $8.12 to $8.47.
No. 1 hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, north central Colorado, was $8.11 3/4 to $8.46 3/4.
In northeast Colorado, wheat was $7.81 3/4 to $8.46 3/4.
In east central Colorado, wheat was $7.96 3/4.
In southeast Colorado, wheat was $7.71 3/4 to $8.57 3/4.
In southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming, wheat bids were $7.86 3/4 to $7.89 3/4.
No. 2 yellow corn in north central Colorado was $8.04 to $8.15 1/2.
In northeast Colorado, the country elevator corn bids were $6.65 1/2 to $7.59 1/2.
In east central Colorado, corn was $6.40 1/2 to $7.55 1/2.
In southeast Colorado, corn was $7.55 1/2 to $7.95 1/2.
In southwest Nebraska corn bids were 7.15 1/2 to $7.35 1/2 per bushel.
No. 2 yellow sorghum in southeast Colorado was $5.80 1/2 to $6.15 1/2.
No. 1 yellow soybeans in southwest Nebraska were $14.48 3/4 to $14.58 3/4.
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 $8.04 to $8.16. 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.