Grain market close
The USDA Market News Service, Greeley, Colo., in the closing grain report for July 24, reported in futures trading that Chicago September soft red winter wheat was $5.10 1/4, down 3 1/2 cents; September corn, $3.52, down 5 1/4 cents; and August soybeans, $8.58, up 10 1/4 cents.
The export bid for direct Gulf delivery of No. 1 hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, rail, $5.74 3/4 to $5.94 3/4, down 1 cent; No. 2 soft red winter wheat, barge, $5.60 1/4 to $5.65 1/4, down 3 1/2 cents; No. 2 yellow corn, barge, $3.92 to $4.05, down 5 1/4 cents; No. 2 yellow sorghum, rail, $6.53 1/2 to $6.71 1/2, down 9 1/2 to 9 1/4 cents; No. 2 yellow sorghum, barge, unavailable; and No. 2 yellow soybeans, barge, $9.08 to $9.12, up 9 1/4 to 10 1/4 cents.
Colby, Kan., unit train wheat bid was $4.80.
In Denver and the surrounding area, hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, was $4.60 to $4.80.
No. 1 hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, north central Colorado, cash and new crop bids were mostly 1 cent lower, at $4.18 to $4.65.
In northeast Colorado, wheat was $4.50 to $4.70.
In east central Colorado, wheat was $4.60 to $4.70.
In southeast Colorado, wheat was $4.55 to $4.60.
In southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming, wheat bids were $4.55 to $4.70.
No. 2 yellow corn in north central Colorado, new crop and cash bids were mostly 5 cents lower and $3.53 to $3.64 per bushel.
In northeast Colorado, the country elevator corn bids were $3.07 to $3.42.
In east central Colorado, corn was $2.97 to $3.17.
In southeast Colorado, corn was $2.97 to $3.47.
In southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming, corn bids were $3.09 to $3.32 per bushel.
No. 2 yellow sorghum in southeast Colorado was mostly 9 cents lower, new crop mostly 8 to 9 cents lower at $5.48 to $5.57 per cwt.
No. 1 yellow soybeans in southwest Nebraska, cash and new crop bids were mostly 10 to 11 cents higher at $7.41 to $7.48 per bushel.
White millet in Colorado, southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming was $7.50 to $8.25 per cwt., mostly $7.50 to $8.
Sunflowers were $18 cwt.
In Denver and surrounding areas, corn was $3.53 per bushel. Barley was unavailable.
In northeast Colorado, Wyoming and western Nebraska, pinto beans were steady $21 per cwt; in North Dakota and Minnesota, pinto beans were steady $21 to $23. In North Dakota and Minnesota, black beans were steady $25 to $26. Great Northerns were steady at $21 in northeast Colorado, Wyoming and western Nebraska. In North Dakota and Minnesota, navy beans were steady $23. In northeast Colorado, Wyoming and western Nebraska, light red kidneys were steady $35; in North Dakota and Minnesota, light red kidneys were steady $33.