Grain market close

The USDA Market News Service, Greeley, Colorado, in the closing grain report for July 21, reported in futures trading that Chicago September soft red winter wheat was $5.22, down 12 3/4 cents; September corn, $3.28 1/4, down 4 3/4 cents; and August soybeans, $9.03, up 5 cents.

The export bid for direct Gulf delivery of No. 1 hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, rail, unavailable; No. 2 soft red winter wheat, barge, $5.87 3/4, up 5 3/4 cents; No. 2 yellow corn, barge, $3.78 3/4 to $3.85 3/4, down 5 1/2 cents; No. 2 yellow sorghum, rail, $7.78 to $8.40 1/2, down 9 cents; No. 2 yellow sorghum, barge, unavailable; and No. 1 yellow soybeans, barge, $9.59 1/2 to $9.62 1/2, down 6 1/2 cents.

Colby, Kan., unit train wheat bid was $4.06.

In Denver and the surrounding area, hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, was $4.23 to $4.48.

No. 1 hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, north central Colorado, was mostly 7 to 8 cents higher, at $4.03 to $4.33.

In northeast Colorado, wheat was $3.79 to $4.02.

In east central Colorado, wheat was $3.93 to $4.23.

In southeast Colorado, wheat was $3.98 to $4.18.

In southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming, wheat bids were $3.80 to $4.

No. 2 yellow corn in north central Colorado was mostly 5 cents lower and $3.60 to $3.68 per bushel.

In northeast Colorado, the country elevator corn bids were $3.03 to $3.33.

In east central Colorado, corn was $2.93 to $3.08.

In southeast Colorado, corn was $3.23 to $3.38.

In southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming, corn bids were $2.99 to $3.23 per bushel.

No. 2 yellow sorghum in southeast Colorado was steady to 9 cents lower at $5.77 to $6.13 per cwt.

No. 1 yellow soybeans in southwest Nebraska were 6 to 7 cents lower at $7.83 to $8.03 per bushel.

White millet in Colorado, southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming was $12 to $15 per cwt., mostly $13 to $15.

Sunflowers were $18.50 cwt.

In Denver and surrounding areas, corn was $3.68 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. 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.