The USDA Market News Service, Greeley, Colorado, in the closing grain report for Oct. 25, reported in futures trading that Chicago December soft red winter wheat was $8.34 3/4; December corn, $6.86 1/4; and December soybeans, $13.82.
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, $9.23 3/4, down 4 cents; No. 2 yellow corn, barge, $8.66 1/4 to $9.01 1/4, up 4 3/4 cents; No. 2 yellow sorghum, rail, unavailable; No. 2 yellow sorghum, barge, unavailable; and No. 1 yellow soybeans, barge, $16.02 to $16.12, up 10 cents.
Colby, Kansas, unit train wheat bid was $8.84 1/2 to $8.89 1/2.
In Denver and the surrounding area, hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, was $8.95 to $9.65.
No. 1 hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, north central Colorado, was $8.94 to $9.64 1/2.
In northeast Colorado, wheat was $8.69 1/2 to $8.79 1/2.
In east central Colorado, wheat was $8.79 1/2 to $8.84 1/2.
In southeast Colorado, wheat was $8.54 1/2 to $9.04 1/2.
In southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming, wheat bids were $8.69 1/2 to $8.72 1/2.
No. 2 yellow corn in north central Colorado was $8.26 1/4 to $8.36 1/4.
In northeast Colorado, the country elevator corn bids were $7.91 1/4 to $8.26 1/4.
In east central Colorado, corn was $7.11 1/4 to $8.36 1/4.
In southeast Colorado, corn was $8.36 1/4.
In southwest Nebraska corn bids were $7.91 1/4 to $8.01 1/4 per bushel.
No. 2 yellow sorghum in southeast Colorado was $6.81 1/4 to $7.56 1/4.
No. 1 yellow soybeans in southwest Nebraska were $12.87 to $13.37.
White millet in Colorado, southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming was $18 to $19 per cwt.
Sunflowers were $24.50 per cwt.
In Denver and surrounding areas, corn was $8.26 to $8.36. 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.