The USDA Market News Service, Greeley, Colorado, in the closing grain report for Aug. 16, reported in futures trading that Chicago September soft red winter wheat was $7.86; September corn, $6.11; and September soybeans, $14.54 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, $8.56 to $8.63, down 14 3/4 to 12 3/4 cents; No. 2 yellow corn, barge, $7.19 to $7.31, down 27 3/4 to 15 3/4 cents; No. 2 yellow sorghum, rail, unavailable; No. 2 yellow sorghum, barge, unavailable; and No. 1 yellow soybeans, barge, $16.16 to $16.51, change unavailable.
Colby, Kansas, unit train wheat bid was $8.21 3/4.
In Denver and the surrounding area, hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, was $8.32 to $8.92.
No. 1 hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, north central Colorado, was $8.31 3/4 to $8.91 3/4.
In northeast Colorado, wheat was $8.01 3/4 to $8.91 3/4.
In east central Colorado, wheat was $8.16 3/4.
In southeast Colorado, wheat was $7.91 3/4 to $8.67 3/4.
In southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming, wheat bids were $8.06 3/4 to $8.09 3/4.
No. 2 yellow corn in north central Colorado was $7.09 1/4 to $7.91.
In northeast Colorado, the country elevator corn bids were $6.61 to $7.55.
In east central Colorado, corn was $6.36 to $7.11.
In southeast Colorado, corn was $7.31 to $7.91.
In southwest Nebraska corn bids were 7.11 to $7.31 per bushel.
No. 2 yellow sorghum in southeast Colorado was $5.76 to $6.11.
No. 1 yellow soybeans in southwest Nebraska were $13.61 to $14.11.
White millet in Colorado, southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming was $14 to $17 per cwt.
Sunflowers were $27 per cwt.
In Denver and surrounding areas, corn was $7.90 to $7.92. 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.