Grain market close

The USDA Market News Service, Greeley, Colorado, in the closing grain report for March 9, reported in futures trading that Chicago March soft red winter wheat was $6.56 1/2; March corn, $5.62; and March soybeans, $14.41 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, $7.13 to $7.61 1/2, up 10 to 7 1/2 cents; No. 2 yellow corn, barge, $6.02 3/4 to $6.30, down 1 1/4 to 3 cents; No. 2 yellow sorghum, rail, $7.85 3/4 to $8.17, down 1 1/4 cents to 3 cents; No. 2 yellow sorghum, barge, unavailable; and No. 1 yellow soybeans, barge, $15.10 to $15.21 1/4, up 6 1/4 to 3 1/2 cents.

Colby, Kansas, unit train wheat bid was $5.91 to $5.95.

In Denver and the surrounding area, hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, was $6.07 to $6.35.

No. 1 hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, north central Colorado, was $6.06 1/2 to $6.34 1/2.

In northeast Colorado, wheat was $5.56 1/2 to $5.81 1/2.

In east central Colorado, wheat was $5.84 1/2 to $6.16 1/2.

In southeast Colorado, wheat was $5.81 1/2 to $6.01 1/2.

In southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming, wheat bids were $5.56 1/2 to $5.81 1/2.

No. 2 yellow corn in north central Colorado was $5.90 3/4 to $6.15 3/4.

In northeast Colorado, the country elevator corn bids were $5.34 3/4 to $5.70 3/4.

In east central Colorado, corn was $5.70 3/4 to $5.80 3/4.

In southeast Colorado, corn was $5.85 3/4.

In southwest Nebraska corn bids were $5.30 3/4 to $5.34 3/4 per bushel.

No. 2 yellow sorghum in southeast Colorado was $6.65 3/4 to $6.80 3/4.

No. 1 yellow soybeans in southwest Nebraska were $13.50 to $13.75.

White millet in Colorado, southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming was $26.50 to $29 per cwt.

Sunflowers were $20.50 per cwt.

In Denver and surrounding areas, corn was $5.91 to $6.16. Barley was unavailable.

In northeast Colorado, Wyoming and western Nebraska, pinto beans were steady $26 per cwt; in North Dakota and Minnesota, pinto beans were steady at $30 to $32. In North Dakota and Minnesota, black beans were steady $27 to $32. Great Northerns were steady at $30 in northeast Colorado, Wyoming and western Nebraska. In North Dakota and Minnesota, navy beans were steady $32. In northeast Colorado, Wyoming and western Nebraska, light red kidneys were unavailable; in North Dakota and Minnesota, light red kidneys were steady $41 to $43.