Grain market close
The USDA Market News Service, Greeley, Colo., in the closing grain report for July 31, reported in futures trading that Chicago September soft red winter wheat was $5.53 3/4, up 7 1/4 cents; September corn, $3.72 1/4, up 5 cents; and August soybeans, $9.03 3/4, up 28 3/4 cents.
The export bid for direct Gulf delivery of No. 1 hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, rail, $6.21 1/2 to $6.41, 1/2 up 8 3/4 cents; No. 2 soft red winter wheat, barge, $6.03 3/4 to $6.13 3/4, up7 1/4 to 11 1/4 cents; No. 2 yellow corn, barge, $4.12 1/4 to $4.27 1/4, up 5 cents; No. 2 yellow sorghum, rail, $6.90 1/4 to $7.08, up 9 1/2 to 9 1/4 cents; No. 2 yellow sorghum, barge, unavailable; and No. 2 yellow soybeans, barge, $9.51 3/4 to $9.57 3/4, up 26 3/4 to 28 3/4 cents.
Colby, Kan., unit train wheat bid was $5.22.
In Denver and the surrounding area, hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, was $5.07 to $5.27.
No. 1 hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, north central Colorado, was mostly 9 cents higher, at $4.64 to $5.12.
In northeast Colorado, wheat was $4.94 to $5.16.
In east central Colorado, wheat was $5.02 to $5.22.
In southeast Colorado, wheat was $5.02 to $5.36.
In southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming, wheat bids were $4.97 to $5.16.
No. 2 yellow corn in north central Colorado was mostly 5 cents higher and $3.72 to $3.82 per bushel.
In northeast Colorado, the country elevator corn bids were $3.27 to $3.62.
In east central Colorado, corn was $3.17 to $3.37.
In southeast Colorado, corn was $3.17 to $3.72.
In southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming, corn bids were $3.29 to $3.52 per bushel.
No. 2 yellow sorghum in southeast Colorado was 9 cents higher at $5.84 to $5.93 per cwt.
No. 1 yellow soybeans in southwest Nebraska were 28 to 36 cents higher at $7.86 to $8.01 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 $3.72 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.