Grain market close

The USDA Market News Service, Greeley, Colo., in the closing grain report for June 23, reported in futures trading that Chicago July soft red winter wheat was $4.86, up 1 cent; July corn, $3.25, down 3 1/4 cents; and July soybeans, $8.75, down 1 1/4 cents.

The export bid for direct Gulf delivery of No. 1 hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, rail, $5.20 to $5.35, up 3 3/4 cents; No. 2 soft red winter wheat, barge, $5.28 to $5.31, up 1 cent; No. 2 yellow corn, barge, $3.73 to $3.75, down 3 1/4 to 4 1/4 cents; No. 2 yellow sorghum, rail, $7.53 1/4 to $7.97 3/4, down 8 3/4 to 9 cents; No. 2 yellow sorghum, barge, unavailable; and No. 1 yellow soybeans, barge, $9.31 to $9.40, down 1 1/4 to 3 1/4 cents.

Colby, Kan., unit train wheat bid was $3.93.

In Denver and the surrounding area, hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, was $4.05 to $4.35.

No. 1 hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, north central Colorado, was mostly 4 cents higher, at $3.91 to $4.15.

In northeast Colorado, wheat was $3.65 to $3.82.

In east central Colorado, wheat was $3.75 to $4.05.

In southeast Colorado, wheat was $3.90 to $4.10.

In southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming, wheat bids were $3.75 to $3.90.

No. 2 yellow corn in north central Colorado was mostly 3 cents lower and $3.63 to $3.75 per bushel.

In northeast Colorado, the country elevator corn bids were $2.95 to $3.25.

In east central Colorado, corn was $2.90 to $3.

In southeast Colorado, corn was $3.15 to $3.35.

In southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming, corn bids were $3 to $3.25 per bushel.

No. 2 yellow sorghum in southeast Colorado was 6 cents lower at $5.80 to $6.07 per cwt.

No. 1 yellow soybeans in southwest Nebraska were 1 to 5 cents lower at $7.65 to $7.84 per bushel.

White millet in Colorado, southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming was $11.50 to $13.50 per cwt., mostly $13.

Sunflowers were $18.50 cwt.

In Denver and surrounding areas, corn was $3.75 per bushel. Barley was unavailable.

In northeast Colorado, Wyoming and western Nebraska, pinto beans were unavailable; in North Dakota and Minnesota, pinto beans were steady $38 to $40 per cwt. In North Dakota and Minnesota, black beans were steady $25 to $27. Great Northerns were unavailable 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 unavailable.