The USDA Market News Service, Greeley, Colorado, in the closing grain report for Aug. 23, reported in futures trading that Chicago September soft red winter wheat was $7.82 3/4; September corn, $6.60; and September soybeans, $15.66 3/4.
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, $8.52 3/4 to $8.59 3/4, up 12 1/4 cents; No. 2 yellow corn, barge, $7.68 to $7.80,up 26 1/2 cents; No. 2 yellow sorghum, rail, unavailable; No. 2 yellow sorghum, barge, unavailable; and No. 1 yellow soybeans, barge, $16.96 to $17.31, up 25 3/4 cents.
Colby, Kansas, unit train wheat bid was $8.32 1/2.
In Denver and the surrounding area, hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, was $8.43 to $9.13.
No. 1 hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, north central Colorado, was $8.42 1/2 to $9.12 1/2.
In northeast Colorado, wheat was $8.12 1/2 to $8.25 1/2.
In east central Colorado, wheat was $8.27 1/2.
In southeast Colorado, wheat was $8.02 1/2 to $8.65.
In southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming, wheat bids were $8.17 1/2 to $8.20 1/2.
No. 2 yellow corn in north central Colorado was $8.05 1/4 to $8.40.
In northeast Colorado, the country elevator corn bids were $7.10 to $8.04.
In east central Colorado, corn was $6.85 to $7.60.
In southeast Colorado, corn was $7.70 to $8.40.
In southwest Nebraska corn bids were $7.60 to $7.80 per bushel.
No. 2 yellow sorghum in southeast Colorado was $6.25 to $6.75.
No. 1 yellow soybeans in southwest Nebraska were $14.41 to $14.91.
White millet in Colorado, southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming was $15 to $18 per cwt.
Sunflowers were $27 per cwt.
In Denver and surrounding areas, corn was $8.05 to $8.40. 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.