Grain market close
The USDA Market News Service, Greeley, Colorado, in the closing grain report for Sept. 1, reported in futures trading that Chicago September soft red winter wheat was $5.55 3/4; September corn, $3.49 1/2; and September soybeans, $9.55.
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, $6.10 3/4 to $6.46 3/4, up 11 1/4 to 22 1/2 cents; No. 2 yellow corn, barge, $4.08 to $4.29 3/4, up 3 1/4 to 4 cents; No. 2 yellow sorghum, rail, $5.33, up 1/4 cent; No. 2 yellow sorghum, barge, unavailable; and No. 1 yellow soybeans, barge, $10.19 3/4 to $10.31, down 9 3/4 to up 1/4 cents.
Colby, Kansas, unit train wheat bid was $4.39 1/2 to $4.40 1/2.
In Denver and the surrounding area, hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, was $4.61 1/2 to $4.91 1/2.
No. 1 hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, north central Colorado was $4.61 1/2 to $4.91 1/2.
In northeast Colorado, wheat was $4.16 1/2 to $4.45 1/2.
In east central Colorado, wheat was $4.35 1/2 to $4.60 1/2.
In southeast Colorado, wheat was $4.35 1/2 to $4.06 1/2.
In southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming, wheat bids were $4.16 1/2 to $4.40 1/2.
No. 2 yellow corn in north central Colorado was $3.86 to $3.98 per bushel.
In northeast Colorado, the country elevator corn bids were $3.25 1/2 to $3.63.
In east central Colorado, corn was $3.29 1/2 to $3.53.
In southeast Colorado, corn was $3.63 to $3.73.
In southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming, corn bids were $3.31 to $3.40 per bushel.
No. 2 yellow sorghum in southeast Colorado was $3.38 to $4.13 per cwt.
No. 1 yellow soybeans in southwest Nebraska were 10 cents lower at $8.64 3/4 to $8.74 3/4 per bushel.
White millet in Colorado, southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming was unavailable.
Sunflowers were unavailable.
In Denver and surrounding areas, corn was $3.86 to $3.98 per bushel. Barley was unavailable.
In northeast Colorado, Wyoming and western Nebraska, pinto beans were steady $25 to $26 per cwt; in North Dakota and Minnesota, pinto beans were steady $23 to $24. In North Dakota and Minnesota, black beans were steady $24 to $25. Great Northerns were steady at $32 in northeast Colorado, Wyoming and western Nebraska. In North Dakota and Minnesota, navy beans were steady $25. In northeast Colorado, Wyoming and western Nebraska, light red kidneys were steady $43; in North Dakota and Minnesota, light red kidneys were steady $40 to $43.