Grain market close
The USDA Market News Service, Greeley, Colo., in the closing grain report for Oct. 16, reported in futures trading that Chicago December soft red winter wheat was $5.23 1/2, down 1 1/2 cents; December corn, $3.75 1/4, down 3 cents; and December soybeans, $8.84 3/4, down 6 3/4 cents.
The export bid for direct Gulf delivery of No. 1 hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, rail, $5.88 to $6.08, down 3 3/4 cents; No. 2 soft red winter wheat, barge, $5.78 1/2 to $5.79 1/2, down 1 1/2 cents; No. 2 yellow corn, barge, $4.12 1/4 to $4.20 1/4, down 3 to up 4 cents; No. 2 yellow sorghum, rail, $7.32 1/2, down 5 1/2 cents; No. 2 yellow sorghum, barge, unavailable; and No. 2 yellow soybeans, barge, $8.84 3/4 to $8.99 3/4, down 6 3/4 to 8 3/4 cents.
Colby, Kan., unit train wheat bid was $4.73.
In Denver and the surrounding area, hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, was $4.73 to $5.08.
No. 1 hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, north central Colorado, was mostly 4 cents lower, at $4.68 to $4.83.
In northeast Colorado, wheat was $4.53 to $4.73.
In east central Colorado, wheat was $4.63 to $4.68.
In southeast Colorado, wheat was $4.58 to $4.83.
In southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming, wheat bids were $4.48 to $4.73.
No. 2 yellow corn in north central Colorado was mostly 2 to 3 cents lower and $3.83 to $3.90 per bushel.
In northeast Colorado, the country elevator corn bids were $3.35 to $3.60.
In east central Colorado, corn was $3.35 to $3.40.
In southeast Colorado, corn was $3.20 to $3.75.
In southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming, corn bids were $3.35 to $3.40 per bushel.
No. 2 yellow sorghum in southeast Colorado was 5 cents lower at $5.36 to $5.77 per cwt.
No. 1 yellow soybeans in southwest Nebraska were 5 to 7 cents lower at $7.32 to $7.35 per bushel.
White millet in Colorado, southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming was $9.25 to $9.75 per cwt., mostly $9.25.
Sunflowers were $18 cwt.
In Denver and surrounding areas, corn was $3.90 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 $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 $34 to $36; in North Dakota and Minnesota, light red kidneys were steady $35.