Grain market close

The USDA Market News Service, Greeley, Colo., in the closing grain report for April 17, reported in futures trading that Chicago May soft red winter wheat was $4.66 1/4, up 4 cents; May corn, $3.80 1/4, down 2 1/4 cents; and May soybeans, $10.46, up 4 cents.

The export bid for direct Gulf delivery of No. 1 hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, rail, $5.45 1/2 to $6.09 1/2, up 2 1/2 cents; No. 2 soft red winter wheat, barge, $5.36 1/4 to $5.37 1/4, up 16 to 3 cents; No. 2 yellow corn, barge, $4.44 1/4 to $4.49 1/4, down 2 1/4 to 1 1/4 cents; No. 2 yellow sorghum, rail, $8.04 to $8.05 3/4, down 4 cents; No. 2 yellow sorghum, barge, unavailable; and No. 2 yellow soybeans, barge, $11.11 to $11.16, up 4 cents.

Colby, Kan., unit train wheat bid was $4.25.

In Denver and the surrounding area, hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, was $4.06 to $4.21.

No. 1 hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, north central Colorado, was mostly 3 cents higher, at $3.80 to $4.06.

In northeast Colorado, wheat was $3.90 to $4.24.

In east central Colorado, wheat was $3.90 to $4.06.

In southeast Colorado, wheat was $4.01 to $4.41.

In southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming, wheat bids were $3.99 to $4.24.

No. 2 yellow corn in north central Colorado was mostly 2 to 3 cents lower and $3.70 to $3.85 per bushel.

In northeast Colorado, the country elevator corn bids were $3.25 to $3.40.

In east central Colorado, corn was $3.23 to $3.40.

In southeast Colorado, corn was $3.25 to $3.62.

In southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming, corn bids were $3.32 to $3.41 per bushel.

No. 2 yellow sorghum in southeast Colorado was mostly 5 cents lower at $5.36 to $5.98 per cwt.

No. 1 yellow soybeans in southwest Nebraska were 4 cents higher at $9.20 to $9.31 per bushel.

White millet in Colorado, southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming was $6.50 to $7.50 per cwt., mostly $7.25.

Sunflowers were $18 cwt.

In Denver and surrounding areas, corn was $3.70 per bushel. Barley was unavailable.

In northeast Colorado, Wyoming and western Nebraska, pinto beans were steady $21 per cwt; in North Dakota and Minnesota, pinto beans were steady $20 to $21. In North Dakota and Minnesota, black beans were steady $24 to $26. Great Northerns were steady at $21 in northeast Colorado, Wyoming and western Nebraska. In North Dakota and Minnesota, navy beans were steady $23 to $24. In northeast Colorado, Wyoming and western Nebraska, light red kidneys were steady $35; in North Dakota and Minnesota, light red kidneys were steady $33.