Grain market close
The USDA Market News Service, Greeley, Colo., in the closing grain report for May 26, reported in futures trading that Chicago July soft red winter wheat was $5.06 3/4, down 2 cents; July corn, $3.19, up 1 cent; and July soybeans, $8.47, up 13 3/4 cents.
The export bid for direct Gulf delivery of No. 1 hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, rail, $5.42 1/4 to $5.62 1/4, up 2 3/4 cents; No. 2 soft red winter wheat, barge, $5.55 3/4 to $5.71 1/4, down 2 to up 1 cent; No. 2 yellow corn, barge, $3.67 to $3.69, up 1 cent to unchanged; No. 2 yellow sorghum, rail, $7.92 3/4 to $8.19 3/4, up 1 3/4 to 2 cents; No. 2 yellow sorghum, barge, unavailable; and No. 1 yellow soybeans, barge, $8.97 to $9.01, up 14 3/4 to 13 3/4 cents.
Colby, Kan., unit train wheat bid was $3.98.
In Denver and the surrounding area, hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, was $4.12 to $4.38.
No. 1 hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, north central Colorado, was mostly 2 cents lower, at $4.03 to $4.12.
In northeast Colorado, wheat was $3.77 to $3.92.
In east central Colorado, wheat was $3.82 to $4.12.
In southeast Colorado, wheat was $3.87 to $4.12.
In southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming, wheat bids were $3.77 to $3.92.
No. 2 yellow corn in north central Colorado was mostly 1 cent higher and $3.39 to $3.42 per bushel.
In northeast Colorado, the country elevator corn bids were $2.84 to $3.14.
In east central Colorado, corn was $2.84 to $2.89.
In southeast Colorado, corn was $2.99 to $3.24.
In southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming, corn bids were $2.84 to $3.19 per bushel.
No. 2 yellow sorghum in southeast Colorado was 1 to 2 cents higher at $5.70 to $6.14 per cwt.
No. 1 yellow soybeans in southwest Nebraska were 14 cents higher at $7.32 to $7.60 per bushel.
White millet in Colorado, southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming was $11 to $12.25 per cwt., mostly $12.
Sunflowers were $18.50 cwt.
In Denver and surrounding areas, corn was $3.39 per bushel. Barley was unavailable.
In northeast Colorado, Wyoming and western Nebraska, pinto beans were steady $35 to $36 per cwt; in North Dakota and Minnesota, pinto beans were steady $38 to $40. In North Dakota and Minnesota, black beans were steady $25 to $28. Great Northerns were steady at $37 to $38 in northeast Colorado, Wyoming and western Nebraska. In North Dakota and Minnesota, navy beans were steady $30 to $35. In northeast Colorado, Wyoming and western Nebraska, light red kidneys were unavailable; in North Dakota and Minnesota, light red kidneys were steady $38 to $45.