Grain market close

The USDA Market News Service, Greeley, Colo., in the closing grain report for May 12, reported in futures trading that Chicago May soft red winter wheat was $5.21 3/4, down 3 cents; May corn, $3.23 3/4, up 5 1/4 cents; and May soybeans, $8.49 1/4, down 3 cents.

The export bid for direct Gulf delivery of No. 1 hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, rail, $5.59 1/4 to $5.64 1/4, down 5 3/4 cents; No. 2 soft red winter wheat, barge, $5.69 1/2 to $5.76 1/2, down 2 3/4 cents; No. 2 yellow corn, barge, $3.66 1/4 to $3.67 1/4, up 3 3/4 cents; No. 2 yellow sorghum, rail, $7.98 3/4 up 6 3/4 cents; No. 2 yellow sorghum, barge, unavailable; and No. 1 yellow soybeans, barge, $9.03 to $9.07, down 3 cents.

Colby, Kan., unit train wheat bid was $4.20.

In Denver and the surrounding area, hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, was $4.31 to $4.59.

No. 1 hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, north central Colorado, was 6 cents lower, at $4.28 to $4.34.

In northeast Colorado, wheat was $3.99 to $4.14.

In east central Colorado, wheat was $4.04 to $4.29.

In southeast Colorado, wheat was $4.09 to $4.34.

In southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming, wheat bids were $3.99 to $4.14.

No. 2 yellow corn in north central Colorado was mostly 3 to 4 cents higher and $3.42 per bushel.

In northeast Colorado, the country elevator corn bids were $2.82 to $3.07.

In east central Colorado, corn was $2.83 to $2.92.

In southeast Colorado, corn was $3.02 to $3.27.

In southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming, corn bids were $2.79 to $3.01 per bushel.

No. 2 yellow sorghum in southeast Colorado was 5 to 6 cents higher at $5.75 to $6.20 per cwt.

No. 1 yellow soybeans in southwest Nebraska were 2 to 3 cents lower at $7.37 to $7.57 per bushel.

White millet in Colorado, southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming was $11 to $11.75 per cwt., mostly $11 to $11.50.

Sunflowers were $18.50 cwt.

In Denver and surrounding areas, corn was $3.42 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.