The USDA Market News Service, Greeley, Colorado, in the closing grain report for Oct. 11, reported in futures trading that Chicago December soft red winter wheat was $9.01; December corn, $6.93; and November soybeans, $13.76 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, $9.90, down 37 cents; No. 2 yellow corn, barge, $8.73 to $9.13, down 5 1/4 cents; No. 2 yellow sorghum, rail, unavailable; No. 2 yellow sorghum, barge, unavailable; and No. 1 yellow soybeans, barge, $15.76 1/4, up 2 1/4 cents.
Colby, Kansas, unit train wheat bid was $9.40 3/4 to $9.45 3/4.
In Denver and the surrounding area, hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, was $9.51 to $10.21
No. 1 hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, north central Colorado, was $9.50 3/4 to $10.20 3/4.
In northeast Colorado, wheat was 9.25 3/4 to $9.35 3/4.
In east central Colorado, wheat was $9.35 3/4 to $9.40 3/4.
In southeast Colorado, wheat was $9.10 3/4 to $9.60 3/4.
In southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming, wheat bids were $9.25 3/4 to $9.28 3/4.
No. 2 yellow corn in north central Colorado was $8.28 to $8.43.
In northeast Colorado, the country elevator corn bids were $7.43 to $8.17.
In east central Colorado, corn was $7.18 to $8.43.
In southeast Colorado, corn was $8.08 to $8.43.
In southwest Nebraska corn bids were $7.83 to $8.03 per bushel.
No. 2 yellow sorghum in southeast Colorado was $6.88 to $7.33.
No. 1 yellow soybeans in southwest Nebraska were $12.81 1/4 to $13.21 1/4.
White millet in Colorado, southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming was $18.75 to $22 per cwt.
Sunflowers were $23.50 per cwt.
In Denver and surrounding areas, corn was $8.28 to $8.43. Barley was unavailable.
In northeast Colorado, Wyoming and western Nebraska, pinto beans were steady $37 to $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 $41. 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.