Grain market close
The USDA Market News Service, Greeley, Colo., in the closing grain report for Sept. 25, reported in futures trading that Chicago December soft red winter wheat was $5.20 3/4, down 6 1/4 cents; December corn, $3.63 3/4, up 3 1/4 cents; and November soybeans, $8.45 3/4, up 4 3/4 cents.
The export bid for direct Gulf delivery of No. 1 hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, rail, $5.82, down 7 cents; No. 2 soft red winter wheat, barge, $5.50 3/4 to $5.60 3/4, down 6 1/4 cents; No. 2 yellow corn, barge, $3.95 3/4 to $3.96 3/4, up 3 1/4 cents; No. 2 yellow sorghum, rail, $7.38 3/4 to $7.56 3/4, up 5 3/4 cents; No. 2 yellow sorghum, barge, unavailable; and No. 2 yellow soybeans, barge, $8.39 3/4 to $8.40 3/4, up 3 3/4 cents.
Colby, Kan., unit train wheat bid was $4.67.
In Denver and the surrounding area, hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, was $4.52 to $4.82.
No. 1 hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, north central Colorado, was mostly 7 cents lower, at $4.43 to $4.62.
In northeast Colorado, wheat was $4.44 to $4.58.
In east central Colorado, wheat was $4.52 to $4.57.
In southeast Colorado, wheat was $4.52 to $4.77.
In southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming, wheat bids were $4.42 to $4.62.
No. 2 yellow corn in north central Colorado was mostly 3 cents higher and $3.79 to $3.81 per bushel.
In northeast Colorado, the country elevator corn bids were $3.23 to $3.49.
In east central Colorado, corn was $3.24 to $3.29.
In southeast Colorado, corn was $3.09 to $3.64.
In southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming, corn bids were $3.18 to $3.29 per bushel.
No. 2 yellow sorghum in southeast Colorado was 5 to 6 cents higher at $5.16 to $5.61 per cwt.
No. 1 yellow soybeans in southwest Nebraska were 4 to 5 cents higher at $6.93 to $7 per bushel.
White millet in Colorado, southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming was $8 to $9 per cwt., mostly $8.50 to $8.75.
Sunflowers were $15 to $18 cwt.
In Denver and surrounding areas, corn was $3.79 per bushel. Barley was not available.
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 $22. In North Dakota and Minnesota, black beans were steady $26. Great Northerns were steady at $21 in northeast Colorado, Wyoming and western Nebraska. In North Dakota and Minnesota, navy beans were steady $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.