Grain market close

The USDA Market News Service, Greeley, Colo., in the closing grain report for Aug. 14, reported in futures trading that Chicago September soft red winter wheat was $5.41 3/4, up 8 1/4 cents; September corn, $3.62 1/4, up 5 3/4 cents; and November soybeans, $8.79 3/4, up 11 cents.

The export bid for direct Gulf delivery of No. 1 hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, rail, $6.30 3/4, up 5 cents; No. 2 soft red winter wheat, barge, $5.91 3/4 to $5.96 3/4, up 13 1/4 to 8 1/4 cents; No. 2 yellow corn, barge, $4.17 1/4 to $4.18 1/4, up 6 3/4 cents; No. 2 yellow sorghum, rail, $7.79 1/2, up 10 3/4 cents; No. 2 yellow sorghum, barge, unavailable; and No. 2 yellow soybeans, barge, $9.09 3/4 to $9.13 3/4, up 11 cents.

Colby, Kan., unit train wheat bid was $5.11.

In Denver and the surrounding area, hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, was $5.01 to $5.16.

No. 1 hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, north central Colorado, was mostly 5 cents higher, at $4.52 to $5.01.

In northeast Colorado, wheat was $4.86 to $5.01.

In east central Colorado, wheat was $4.91 to $5.01.

In southeast Colorado, wheat was $4.96 to $5.21.

In southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming, wheat bids were $4.86 to $5.

No. 2 yellow corn in north central Colorado was mostly 5 to 6 cents higher and $3.67 to $3.72 per bushel.

In northeast Colorado, the country elevator corn bids were $3.17 to $3.52.

In east central Colorado, corn was $3.07 to $3.42.

In southeast Colorado, corn was $3.07 to $3.62.

In southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming, corn bids were $3.27 to $3.42 per bushel.

No. 2 yellow sorghum in southeast Colorado was 9 cents higher at $5.66 to $5.75 per cwt.

No. 1 yellow soybeans in southwest Nebraska were 11 cents higher at $7.51 to $7.58 per bushel.

White millet in Colorado, southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming was $7 to $8.25 per cwt., mostly $7.50 to $8.

Sunflowers were $18 cwt.

In Denver and surrounding areas, corn was $3.67 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 $21 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 $23. In northeast Colorado, Wyoming and western Nebraska, light red kidneys were steady $35; in North Dakota and Minnesota, light red kidneys were steady $33.