Grain market close

The USDA Market News Service, Greeley, Colo., in the closing grain report for Nov. 6, reported in futures trading that Chicago December soft red winter wheat was $5.12, up 4 3/4 cents; December corn, $3.7 1/4, down 3/4 cent; and January soybeans, $8.84 1/4, down 1 1/2 cents.

The export bid for direct Gulf delivery of No. 1 hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, rail, $5.68 to $5.88, up 3 1/4 cents; No. 2 soft red winter wheat, barge, $5.80 to $5.87, up 2 3/4 to 4 3/4 cents; No. 2 yellow corn, barge, $4.16 1/4 to $4.17 1/4, down 3/4 to 2 3/4 cents; No. 2 yellow sorghum, rail, $7.29, down 1 1/4 cents; No. 2 yellow sorghum, barge, no comparisons; and No. 2 yellow soybeans, barge, $8.96 1/4 to $8.97, up 1 1/2 to down 1 cent.

Colby, Kan., unit train wheat bid was $4.60.

In Denver and the surrounding area, hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, was $4.68 to $4.88.

No. 1 hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, north central Colorado, was mostly 3 cents higher, at $4.57 to $4.78.

In northeast Colorado, wheat was $4.45 to $4.63.

In east central Colorado, wheat was $4.48 to $4.58.

In southeast Colorado, wheat was $4.38 to $4.68.

In southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming, wheat bids were $4.28 to $4.58.

No. 2 yellow corn in north central Colorado was 1 cent lower and $3.88 to $3.90 per bushel.

In northeast Colorado, the country elevator corn bids were $3.33 to $3.58.

In east central Colorado, corn was $3.38 to $3.46.

In southeast Colorado, corn was $3.18 to $3.78.

In southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming, corn bids were $3.33 to $3.42 per bushel.

No. 2 yellow sorghum in southeast Colorado was 2 cents lower at $5.23 to $5.80 per cwt.

No. 1 yellow soybeans in southwest Nebraska were 1 to 3 cents lower at $7.25 to $7.29 per bushel.

White millet in Colorado, southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming was $9.25 to $9.75 per cwt., mostly $9.50.

Sunflowers were $18 cwt.

In Denver and surrounding areas, corn was $3.88 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.