Grain market close
The USDA Market News Service, Greeley, Colo., in the closing grain report for March 16, reported in futures trading that Chicago May soft red winter wheat was $5.09 3/4, up 1 3/4 cents; May corn, $3.54 3/4, down 11 cents; and May soybeans, unavailable.
The March 17 export bid for direct Gulf delivery of No. 1 hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, rail, $5.35 1/4 to $5.65 1/4, up 8 1/2 cents; No. 2 soft red winter wheat, barge, $5.74 1/4 to $5.99 1/4, up 1 1/4 cents; No. 2 yellow corn, barge, $3.94 to $3.99, down 10 3/4 cents; No. 2 yellow sorghum, rail, $6.91 to $7.30 1/4, down 19 1/4 cents; No. 2 yellow sorghum, barge, unavailable; and No. 1 yellow soybeans, barge, $8.71 1/4 to $8.77 1/4, up 2 1/2 cents.
The following prices are from March 17:
Colby, Kan., unit train wheat bid was $3.76.
In Denver and the surrounding area, hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, was $4.02 to $4.32.
No. 1 hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, north central Colorado, was mostly 8 cents higher, at $3.93 to $4.04.
In northeast Colorado, wheat was $3.62 to $3.82.
In east central Colorado, wheat was $3.67 to $3.97.
In southeast Colorado, wheat was $3.57 to $3.92.
In southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming, wheat bids were $3.67 to $3.79.
No. 2 yellow corn in north central Colorado was mostly 11 cents lower and $3.68 to $3.74 per bushel.
In northeast Colorado, the country elevator corn bids were $3.14 to $3.39.
In east central Colorado, corn was $3.09 to $3.20.
In southeast Colorado, corn was $3.14 to $3.49.
In southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming, corn bids were $3.20 to $3.44 per bushel.
No. 2 yellow sorghum in southeast Colorado was 20 cents lower at $4.89 to $5.34 per cwt.
No. 1 yellow soybeans in southwest Nebraska were 2 to 3 cents higher at $7.09 to $7.25 per bushel.
White millet in Colorado, southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming was $10.50 to $12 per cwt., mostly $10.50 to $11.50.
Sunflowers were $18.50 cwt.
In Denver and surrounding areas, corn was $3.74 per bushel. Barley was unavailable.
In northeast Colorado, Wyoming and western Nebraska, pinto beans were steady $34 per cwt; in North Dakota and Minnesota, pinto beans were steady at $32 to $38. In North Dakota and Minnesota, black beans were steady $25 to $28. Great Northerns were steady at $37 in northeast Colorado, Wyoming and western Nebraska. In North Dakota and Minnesota, navy beans were steady $28 to $30. In northeast Colorado, Wyoming and western Nebraska, light red kidneys were steady $40; in North Dakota and Minnesota, light red kidneys were steady $38 to $45.