Grain market close

The USDA Market News Service, Greeley, Colo., in the closing grain report for April 21, reported in futures trading that Chicago March soft red winter wheat was $5.46 3/4, down 2 cents; March corn, $3.09 1/4, down 5 cents; and March soybeans, $8.30 3/4, up 4 1/4 cents.

The export bid for direct Gulf delivery of No. 1 hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, rail, $6.06 3/4 to $6.16 3/4, up 1 1/12 cents; No. 2 soft red winter wheat, barge, $6.06 3/4, down 2 cents; No. 2 yellow corn, barge, $3.57 1/4 to $3.59 1/4, down 5 to 10 cents; No. 2 yellow sorghum, rail, $7.13 to $7.55, down 9 to 8 3/4 cents; No. 2 yellow sorghum, barge, unavailable; and No. 1 yellow soybeans, barge, $8.80 3/4 to $8.88 3/4, up 4 1/4 to 2 1/4 cents.

Colby, Kan., unit train wheat bid was $4.53.

In Denver and the surrounding area, hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, was $4.67 to $4.94.

No. 1 hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, north central Colorado, was mostly 2 cents higher, at $4.56 to $4.72.

In northeast Colorado, wheat was $4.32 to $4.47.

In east central Colorado, wheat was $4.32 to $4.67.

In southeast Colorado, wheat was $4.22 to $4.62.

In southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming, wheat bids were $4.32 to $4.49.

No. 2 yellow corn in north central Colorado was mostly 5 cents lower and $3.19 to $3.38 per bushel.

In northeast Colorado, the country elevator corn bids were $2.77 to $2.94.

In east central Colorado, corn was $2.79 to $2.84.

In southeast Colorado, corn was $2.79 to $3.14.

In southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming, corn bids were $2.75 to $3.09 per bushel.

No. 2 yellow sorghum in southeast Colorado was mostly 9 cents lower at $4.27 to $5.70 per cwt.

No. 1 yellow soybeans in southwest Nebraska were 4 cents higher at $7.20 to $7.32 per bushel.

White millet in Colorado, southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming was $10.50 to $12 per cwt., mostly $11.

Sunflowers were $18.50 cwt.

In Denver and surrounding areas, corn was $3.19 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 $33 to $38. 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 $28 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.