Grain market close

The USDA Market News Service, Greeley, Colo., in the closing grain report for May 8, reported in futures trading that Chicago July soft red winter wheat was $5.14 1/2, up 3 cents; July corn, $4.03 1/4, up 2 1/2 cents; and July soybeans, $10.20 1/4, up 8 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, $5.64 1/2 to $5.78 1/2, up 3 cents; No. 2 yellow corn, barge, $4.52 1/4 to $4.58 1/4, up 2 1/2 to 5 1/2 cents; No. 2 yellow sorghum, rail, unavailable; No. 2 yellow sorghum, barge, unavailable; and No. 2 yellow soybeans, barge, $10.65 1/4 to $10.72 1/4, up 8 3/4 to 10 3/4 cents.

Colby, Kan., unit train wheat bid was $4.71.

In Denver and the surrounding area, hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, was $4.43 to $4.73.

No. 1 hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, north central Colorado, was mostly 1 to 2 cents lower, at $4.33 to $4.58.

In northeast Colorado, wheat was $4.43 to $4.75.

In east central Colorado, wheat was $4.43 to $4.48.

In southeast Colorado, wheat was $4.58 to $4.98.

In southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming, wheat bids were $4.38 to $4.74.

No. 2 yellow corn in north central Colorado was mostly 2 cents higher and $3.88 to $4.04 per bushel.

In northeast Colorado, the country elevator corn bids were $3.50 to $3.63.

In east central Colorado, corn was $3.45 to $3.55.

In southeast Colorado, corn was $3.48 to $4.

In southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming, corn bids were $3.49 to $3.58 per bushel.

No. 2 yellow sorghum in southeast Colorado was mostly 4 cents higher at $6.07 to $6.13 per cwt.

No. 1 yellow soybeans in southwest Nebraska were mostly 8 to 9 cents higher at $8.90 per bushel.

White millet in Colorado, southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming was $6.50 to $7.75 per cwt., mostly $7.25.

Sunflowers were $18 cwt.

In Denver and surrounding areas, corn was $3.88 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 $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.