Grain market close

The USDA Market News Service, Greeley, Colo., in the closing grain report for Aug. 28, reported in futures trading that Chicago September soft red winter wheat was $4.98 1/4, down 1 cent; September corn, $3.41, down 5 3/4 cents; and November soybeans, $8.33 1/4, down 15 cents.

The export bid for direct Gulf delivery of No. 1 hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, rail, $5.84 1/4, down 2 1/2 cents; No. 2 soft red winter wheat, barge, $5.43 1/4 to $5.53 1/4, down 1 cent; No. 2 yellow corn, barge, $3.95 to $5.53 1/4, down 1 cent; No. 2 yellow sorghum, rail, $7.43 1/4, down 9 1/2 cents; No. 2 yellow sorghum, barge, unavailable; and No. 2 yellow soybeans, barge, $8.46 1/4 to $8.53 1/4, down 12 to 15 cents.

Colby, Kan., unit train wheat bid was $4.65.

In Denver and the surrounding area, hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, was $4.54 to $4.69.

No. 1 hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, north central Colorado, was mostly 3 cents lower, at $4.07 to $4.54.

In northeast Colorado, wheat was $4.39 to $4.54.

In east central Colorado, wheat was $4.44 to $4.54.

In southeast Colorado, wheat was $4.44 to $4.74.

In southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming, wheat bids were $4.39 to $4.68.

No. 2 yellow corn in north central Colorado was mostly 6 cents lower and $3.46 to $3.56 per bushel.

In northeast Colorado, the country elevator corn bids were $2.96 to $3.31.

In east central Colorado, corn was $2.86 to $3.21.

In southeast Colorado, corn was $2.86 to $3.41.

In southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming, corn bids were $3.06 to $3.26 per bushel.

No. 2 yellow sorghum in southeast Colorado was 10 cents lower at $5.29 to $5.38 per cwt.

No. 1 yellow soybeans in southwest Nebraska were 15 to 20 cents lower at $6.98 to $7.06 per bushel.

White millet in Colorado, southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming was $7 to $8.25 per cwt., mostly $7.25 to $7.50.

Sunflowers were $18 cwt.

In Denver and surrounding areas, corn was $3.46 per bushel. Barley was unavailable.

In northeast Colorado, Wyoming and western Nebraska, pinto beans were steady $20 to $21 per cwt; in North Dakota and Minnesota, pinto beans were steady $22 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 $22. In northeast Colorado, Wyoming and western Nebraska, light red kidneys were steady $35; in North Dakota and Minnesota, light red kidneys were steady $35.