Grain market close
The USDA Market News Service, Greeley, Colo., in the closing grain report for Dec. 4, reported in futures trading that Chicago March soft red winter wheat was $5.22 1/2, up 1 1/4 cents; March corn, $3.84 3/4, up 2 3/4 cents; and January soybeans, $9.11 3/4, up 6 cents.
The export bid for direct Gulf delivery of No. 1 hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, rail, $5.65 1/4 to $5.80 1/4, down 1 1/4 cents; No. 2 soft red winter wheat, barge, $5.87 1/2 to $5.92 1/2, down 2 3/4 to up 1 1/4 cents; No. 2 yellow corn, barge, $4.18 3/4 to $4.32 3/4, down 7 1/4 to up 2 3/4 cents; No. 2 yellow sorghum, rail, $7.40 1/2 to $7.58 1/2, up 4 3/4 to 5 cents; No. 2 yellow sorghum, barge, unavailable; and No. 2 yellow soybeans, barge, $9.21 3/4 to $9.31 3/4, up 1 to 5 cents.
Colby, Kan., unit train wheat bid was $4.55.
In Denver and the surrounding area, hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, was $4.65 to $4.95.
No. 1 hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, north central Colorado, was mostly 1 to 2 cents lower, at $4.46 to $4.80.
In northeast Colorado, wheat was $4.34 to $4.60.
In east central Colorado, wheat was $4.29 to $4.70.
In southeast Colorado, wheat was $4.39 to $4.55.
In southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming, wheat bids were $4.25 to $4.55.
No. 2 yellow corn in north central Colorado was 1 to 3 cents higher and $3.93 to $3.95 per bushel.
In northeast Colorado, the country elevator corn bids were $3.41 to $3.65.
In east central Colorado, corn was $3.39 to $3.55.
In southeast Colorado, corn was $3.20 to $3.80.
In southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming, corn bids were $3.34 to $3.58 per bushel.
No. 2 yellow sorghum in southeast Colorado was 4 to 5 cents higher at $5.27 to $5.80 per cwt.
No. 1 yellow soybeans in southwest Nebraska were 5 to 6 cents lower at $7.69 to $7.71 per bushel.
White millet in Colorado, southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming was $10 to $10.75 per cwt., mostly $10 to $10.50.
Sunflowers were $18 cwt.
In Denver and surrounding areas, corn was $3.95 per bushel. Barley was unavailable.
In northeast Colorado, Wyoming and western Nebraska, pinto beans were steady $22 per cwt; in North Dakota and Minnesota, pinto beans were steady $21 to $22. In North Dakota and Minnesota, black beans were steady $26. Great Northerns were steady at $21 to $22 in northeast Colorado, Wyoming and western Nebraska. In North Dakota and Minnesota, navy beans were steady $21 to $22. In northeast Colorado, Wyoming and western Nebraska, light red kidneys were steady $35; in North Dakota and Minnesota, light red kidneys were steady $34 to $35.