Grain market close
The USDA Market News Service, Greeley, Colo., in the closing grain report for Jan. 7, reported in futures trading that Chicago March soft red winter wheat was $5.50 1/2 to $5.50 3/4, up 3/4 cent; March corn, $3.85 1/2, down 1/4 cent; and March soybeans, $9.43 1/4, down 3/4 cent.
The export bid for direct Gulf delivery of No. 1 hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, rail, $6 to $6.05, down 2 1/4 cents; No. 2 soft red winter wheat, barge, $6.50 1/4 to $6.65 1/4, up 1/4 cent; No. 2 yellow corn, barge, $4.29 1/2 to $4.32 1/2, down 3 1/4 to 2 1/4 cents; No. 2 yellow sorghum, rail, $7.40 1/4 to $7.63, down 1/4 cent; No. 2 yellow sorghum, barge, unavailable; and No. 1 yellow soybeans, barge, $9.94 to $9.95, down 3/4 cent.
Colby, Kan., unit train wheat bid was $4.23.
In Denver and the surrounding area, hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, was $4.42 to $4.70.
No. 1 hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, north central Colorado, was mostly 2 cents higher, at $4.44 to $4.52.
In northeast Colorado, wheat was $4.02 to $4.17.
In east central Colorado, wheat was $4.17 to $4.40.
In southeast Colorado, wheat was $4.07 to $4.32.
In southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming, wheat bids were $4.05 to $4.21.
No. 2 yellow corn in north central Colorado was mostly 2 cents lower and $4.10 to $4.15 per bushel.
In northeast Colorado, the country elevator corn bids were $3.50 to $3.70.
In east central Colorado, corn was $3.50 to $3.70.
In southeast Colorado, corn was $3.50 to $3.85.
In southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming, corn bids were $3.54 to $3.65 per bushel.
No. 2 yellow sorghum in southeast Colorado was 3 to 4 cents lower at $5.45 to $5.89 per cwt.
No. 1 yellow soybeans in southwest Nebraska were 2 to 3 cents higher at $8.14 to $8.30 per bushel.
White millet in Colorado, southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming was $12 to $13 per cwt., mostly $12.50.
Sunflowers were $18.50 cwt.
In Denver and surrounding areas, corn was $4.10 to $4.15 per bushel. Barley was unavailable.
In northeast Colorado, Wyoming and western Nebraska, pinto beans were steady $30 per cwt; in North Dakota and Minnesota, pinto beans were steady $32 to $35. In North Dakota and Minnesota, black beans were steady $23 to $26. Great Northerns were steady at $35 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 $39; in North Dakota and Minnesota, light red kidneys were steady $38 to $44.