Grain market close

The USDA Market News Service, Greeley, Colo., in the closing grain report for May 22, reported in futures trading that Chicago July soft red winter wheat was $5.21 1/2, up 14 1/4 cents; July corn, $4.04 3/4, up 2 cents; and July soybeans, $10.30 1/2, up 5 1/4 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, $5.71 1/2 to $5.76 1/2, up 14 1/4 cents; No. 2 yellow corn, barge, $4.55 3/4 to $4.58 3/4, unchanged to up 2 cents; No. 2 yellow sorghum, rail, unavailable; No. 2 yellow sorghum, barge, unavailable; and No. 2 yellow soybeans, barge, $10.80 1/2 to $10.83 1/2, up 6 1/4 cents.

Colby, Kan., unit train wheat bid was $4.79.

In Denver and the surrounding area, hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, was $4.56 to $4.81.

No. 1 hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, north central Colorado, was mostly 14 cents higher, at $4.35 to $4.66.

In northeast Colorado, wheat was $4.46 to $4.82.

In east central Colorado, wheat was $4.45 to $4.66.

In southeast Colorado, wheat was $4.61 to $5.06.

In southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming, wheat bids were $4.41 to $4.82.

No. 2 yellow corn in north central Colorado was mostly 2 cents higher and $3.90 to $4.05 per bushel.

In northeast Colorado, the country elevator corn bids were $3.52 to $3.75.

In east central Colorado, corn was $3.50 to $3.57.

In southeast Colorado, corn was $3.50 to $3.94.

In southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming, corn bids were $3.51 to $3.60 per bushel.

No. 2 yellow sorghum in southeast Colorado was mostly steady to 13 cents higher at $6.21 to $6.34 per cwt.

No. 1 yellow soybeans in southwest Nebraska were mostly 5 to 6 cents higher at $9 to $9.11 per bushel.

White millet in Colorado, southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming was $6.50 to $7.75 per cwt., mostly $7.50.

Sunflowers were $18 cwt.

In Denver and surrounding areas, corn was $3.90 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 $22. 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 $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.