Grain market close
The USDA Market News Service, Greeley, Colo., in the closing grain report for Oct. 2, reported in futures trading that Chicago December soft red winter wheat was $5.19 1/4, up 9 3/4 cents; December corn, $3.67 1/2, up 1 3/4 cents; and November soybeans, $8.66, up 8 1/4 cents.
The export bid for direct Gulf delivery of No. 1 hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, rail, $5.82 1/2, up 11 cents; No. 2 soft red winter wheat, barge, $5.69 1/4 to $5.70 1/4, up 9 3/4 cents; No. 2 yellow corn, barge, $4.01 1/2 to $4.05 1/2, down 1 1/4 to up 1 3/4 cents; No. 2 yellow sorghum, rail, $7.27 3/4, up 3 1/4 cents; No. 2 yellow sorghum, barge, unavailable; and No. 2 yellow soybeans, barge, $8.66 to $8.68, up 10 1/4 cents.
Colby, Kan., unit train wheat bid was $4.68.
In Denver and the surrounding area, hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, was $4.58 to $4.83.
No. 1 hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, north central Colorado, was mostly 11 cents higher, at $4.43 to $4.63.
In northeast Colorado, wheat was $4.45 to $4.59.
In east central Colorado, wheat was $4.53 to $4.58.
In southeast Colorado, wheat was $4.53 to $4.78.
In southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming, wheat bids were $4.43 to $4.69.
No. 2 yellow corn in north central Colorado was mostly 1 to 2 cents higher and $3.83 to $3.85 per bushel.
In northeast Colorado, the country elevator corn bids were $3.27 to $3.52.
In east central Colorado, corn was $3.28 to $3.33.
In southeast Colorado, corn was $3.12 to $3.68.
In southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming, corn bids were $3.27 to $3.32 per bushel.
No. 2 yellow sorghum in southeast Colorado was mostly 3 to 4 cents higher at $5.23 to $5.68 per cwt.
No. 1 yellow soybeans in southwest Nebraska were mostly 5 to 9 cents higher at $7.13 to $7.16 per bushel.
White millet in Colorado, southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming was $8.75 to $9.50 per cwt., mostly $9.
Sunflowers were $18 cwt.
In Denver and surrounding areas, corn was $3.83 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 $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.