Grain market close
The USDA Market News Service, Greeley, Colorado, in the closing grain report for Aug. 11, reported in futures trading that Chicago September soft red winter wheat was $4.95, up 4 cents; September corn, $3.11 1/2, up 1 cent; and September soybeans, $8.78, up 1 1/2 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, $5.50, up 4 cents; No. 2 yellow corn, barge, $3.59 1/2 to $3.62 1/2, up 1 to 4 cents; No. 2 yellow sorghum, rail, $8.45 1/2 to $8.90 1/4, up 3/4 to 1 cent; No. 2 yellow sorghum, barge, unavailable; and No. 1 yellow soybeans, barge, $9.50 to $9.53, up 1 1/2 to 3 1/2 cents.
Colby, Kansas, unit train wheat bid was $3.74 3/4 to $3.77 3/4.
In Denver and the surrounding area, hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, was $3.97 to $4.27.
No. 1 hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, north central Colorado at $3.97 to $4.27.
In northeast Colorado, wheat was $3.57 to $3.77.
In east central Colorado, wheat was $3.72 to $3.97.
In southeast Colorado, wheat was $3.72 to $3.92.
In southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming, wheat bids were $3.56 3/4 to $3.92 3/4.
No. 2 yellow corn in north central Colorado was $3.48 to $3.57 per bushel.
In northeast Colorado, the country elevator corn bids were $2.92 to $3.21.
In east central Colorado, corn was $2.82 to $3.12.
In southeast Colorado, corn was $3.17 to $3.32.
In southwest Nebraska corn bids were $2.96 1/2 per bushel.
No. 2 yellow sorghum in southeast Colorado was $6.02 to $6.11 per cwt.
No. 1 yellow soybeans in southwest Nebraska were $7.65 1/2 per bushel.
White millet in Colorado, southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming was $12 to $15 per cwt., mostly $14.
Sunflowers were $20 to $20.50 cwt.
In Denver and surrounding areas, corn was $3.48 to $3.57 per bushel. Barley was unavailable.
In northeast Colorado, Wyoming and western Nebraska, pinto beans were unavailable; in North Dakota and Minnesota, pinto beans were not established. In North Dakota and Minnesota, black beans were steady $25 to $27. Great Northerns were not established in northeast Colorado, Wyoming and western Nebraska. In North Dakota and Minnesota, navy bean prices were unavailable. In northeast Colorado, Wyoming and western Nebraska, light red kidney prices were unavailable; in North Dakota and Minnesota, light red kidney prices were not established.