Grain market close

The USDA Market News Service, Greeley, Colo., in the closing grain report for March 20, reported in futures trading that Chicago May soft red winter wheat was $4.53, up 2 1/4 cents; May corn, $3.74 1/2, down 1/2 cent; and May soybeans, $10.28 1/4, up 5 3/4 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, $5.18 to $5.23 1/2, up 4 1/4 to 2 1/4 cents; No. 2 yellow corn, barge, $4.14 1/2 to $4.36 1/2, down 1/2 cent; No. 2 yellow sorghum, rail, $7.93 3/4 to $8.20 1/2, down 1 cent; No. 2 yellow sorghum, barge, unavailable; and No. 2 yellow soybeans, barge, $10.56 1/4 to $10.68 1/4, up 3 3/4 to 5 3/4 cents.

Colby, Kan., unit train wheat bid was $4.12.

In Denver and the surrounding area, hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, was $3.85 to $4.10.

No. 1 hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, north central Colorado, was mostly steady, at $3.73 to $3.90.

In northeast Colorado, wheat was $3.80 to $4.13.

In east central Colorado, wheat was $3.80 to $3.95.

In southeast Colorado, wheat was $3.90 to $4.25.

In southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming, wheat bids were $3.70 to $4.13.

No. 2 yellow corn in north central Colorado was mostly steady to 1 cent lower and $3.65 to $3.82 per bushel.

In northeast Colorado, the country elevator corn bids were $3.19 to $3.35.

In east central Colorado, corn was $3.18 to $3.30.

In southeast Colorado, corn was $3.19 to $3.60.

In southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming, corn bids were $3.24 to $3.35 per bushel.

No. 2 yellow sorghum in southeast Colorado was steady at $5.27 to $5.86 per cwt.

No. 1 yellow soybeans in southwest Nebraska were mostly 5 to 6 cents higher at $8.97 to $9.03 per bushel.

White millet in Colorado, southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming was $6.25 to $7 per cwt., mostly $7.

Sunflowers were $18 cwt.

In Denver and surrounding areas, corn was $3.65 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 $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 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.