The USDA Market News Service, Greeley, Colorado, in the closing grain report for Oct. 18, reported in futures trading that Chicago December soft red winter wheat was $8.49 1/2; December corn, $6.81; and December soybeans, $13.72.
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, $9.38 1/2, down 11 1/2 cents; No. 2 yellow corn, barge, $8.61 to $8.96, down 2 1/2 cents; No. 2 yellow sorghum, rail, unavailable; No. 2 yellow sorghum, barge, unavailable; and No. 1 yellow soybeans, barge, $15.92 to $16.02, down 13 1/4 cents.
Colby, Kansas, unit train wheat bid was $8.94 1/2 to $8.99 1/2.
In Denver and the surrounding area, hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, was $9.12 to $9.82.
No. 1 hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, north central Colorado, was $9.12 to $9.82.
In northeast Colorado, wheat was $8.87 to $8.97.
In east central Colorado, wheat was $8.97 to $9.02.
In southeast Colorado, wheat was $8.72 to $9.25 1/4.
In southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming, wheat bids were $8.79 1/2 to $8.82 1/2.
No. 2 yellow corn in north central Colorado was $8.18 1/2 to $8.33 1/2.
In northeast Colorado, the country elevator corn bids were $7.73 1/2 to $8.23 1/2.
In east central Colorado, corn was $7.08 1/2 to $8.33 1/2.
In southeast Colorado, corn was $8.23 1/2 to $8.33 1/2.
In southwest Nebraska corn bids were $7.81 to $7.96 per bushel.
No. 2 yellow sorghum in southeast Colorado was $6.78 1/2 to $7.53 1/2.
No. 1 yellow soybeans in southwest Nebraska were $12.77 to $13.27.
White millet in Colorado, southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming was $19 to $21.50 per cwt.
Sunflowers were $24.50 per cwt.
In Denver and surrounding areas, corn was $8.19 to $8.34. Barley was unavailable.
In northeast Colorado, Wyoming and western Nebraska, pinto beans were steady $38 per cwt; in North Dakota and Minnesota, pinto beans were steady at $34 to $35. In North Dakota and Minnesota, black beans were steady $40 to $42. Great Northerns were steady at $40 in northeast Colorado, Wyoming and western Nebraska. In North Dakota and Minnesota, navy beans were steady $38. In northeast Colorado, Wyoming and western Nebraska, light red kidneys were $50; in North Dakota and Minnesota, light red kidneys were $46 to $52.50.