Grain market close

The USDA Market News Service, Greeley, Colo., in the closing grain report for Feb. 6, reported in futures trading that Chicago March soft red winter wheat was $4.46 1/4, up 6 cents; March corn, $3.63 1/2, up 4 3/4 cents; and March soybeans, $9.86 1/4, up 16 1/2 cents.

The export bid for direct Gulf delivery of No. 1 hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, rail, unavailable; No. 2 soft red winter wheat, barge, $5.06 1/4 to $5.08 1/4, up 6 to 3 cents; No. 2 yellow corn, barge, $4.09 1/2 to $4.11 1/2, up 4 3/4 cents; No. 2 yellow sorghum, rail, $8.27 3/4 to $8.63 1/2, up 8 1/2 cents; No. 2 yellow sorghum, barge, unavailable; and No. 2 yellow soybeans, barge, $10.21 1/4 to $10.22 1/4, up 16 1/2 t0 15 1/2 cents.

Colby, Kan., unit train wheat bid was $4.02.

In Denver and the surrounding area, hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, was $3.99 to $4.14.

No. 1 hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, north central Colorado, was mostly 7 cents higher, at $3.73 to $4.02.

In northeast Colorado, wheat was $3.84 to $4.27.

In east central Colorado, wheat was $3.79 to $4.16.

In southeast Colorado, wheat was $3.79 to $4.34.

In southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming, wheat bids were $3.69 to $4.26.

No. 2 yellow corn in north central Colorado was mostly 4 to 5 cents higher and $3.54 to $3.74 per bushel.

In northeast Colorado, the country elevator corn bids were $3.13 to $3.29.

In east central Colorado, corn was $3.13 to $3.29.

In southeast Colorado, corn was $3.08 to $3.56.

In southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming, corn bids were $3.16 to $3.23 per bushel.

No. 2 yellow sorghum in southeast Colorado was unevenly steady at $5.43 to $5.88 per cwt.

No. 1 yellow soybeans in southwest Nebraska were mostly 16 to 17 cents higher at $8.70 to $8.76 per bushel.

White millet in Colorado, southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming was $6 to $7 per cwt., mostly $6.

Sunflowers were $18 cwt.

In Denver and surrounding areas, corn was $3.54 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 $21. 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 $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.