Grain market close
The USDA Market News Service, Greeley, Colo., in the closing grain report for May 5, reported in futures trading that Chicago May soft red winter wheat was $5.25 1/4, up 1 1/4 cents; May corn, $3.13, up 2 1/4 cents; and May soybeans, $8.38 1/4, up 4 1/4 cents.
The export bid for direct Gulf delivery of No. 1 hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, rail, $5.74 to $5.79, down 3 cents; No. 2 soft red winter wheat, barge, $5.70 3/4 to $5.85 3/4, down 8 3/4 to 1 1/4 cents; No. 2 yellow corn, barge, $3.57 to $3.61, up 1 1/2 to 3 1/4 cents; No. 2 yellow sorghum, rail, $7.89 1/4, up 2 3/4 cents; No. 2 yellow sorghum, barge, unavailable; and No. 1 yellow soybeans, barge, $8.94 1/2 to $8.96 1/2, up 3 cents.
Colby, Kan., unit train wheat bid was $4.35.
In Denver and the surrounding area, hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, was $4.46 to $4.74.
No. 1 hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, north central Colorado, was steady to 5 cents lower, at $4.44 to $4.49.
In northeast Colorado, wheat was $4.12 to $4.29.
In east central Colorado, wheat was $4.19 to $4.44.
In southeast Colorado, wheat was $4.24 to $4.49.
In southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming, wheat bids were $4.14 to $4.29.
No. 2 yellow corn in north central Colorado was mostly 1 to 6 cents higher and $3.37 per bushel.
In northeast Colorado, the country elevator corn bids were $2.77 to $3.02.
In east central Colorado, corn was $2.78 to $2.87.
In southeast Colorado, corn was $2.97 to $3.22.
In southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming, corn bids were $2.74 to $2.99 per bushel.
No. 2 yellow sorghum in southeast Colorado was 2 to 46 cents higher at $5.66 to $6.02 per cwt.
No. 1 yellow soybeans in southwest Nebraska were 3 to 12 cents higher at $7.25 to $7.47 per bushel.
White millet in Colorado, southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming was $11 to $11.75 per cwt., mostly $11.
Sunflowers were $18.50 cwt.
In Denver and surrounding areas, corn was $3.37 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 $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.