Grain market close
The USDA Market News Service, Greeley, Colo., in the closing grain report for May 15, reported in futures trading that Chicago July soft red winter wheat was $4.93 1/2, up 2 1/4 cents; July corn, $4.22 1/4, up 5 3/4 cents; and July soybeans, $10.18 3/4, up 1 cent.
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, $5.43 1/2 to $5.48 1/2, up 2 1/4 to 4 1/4 cents; No. 2 yellow corn, barge, $4.56 1/4 to $4.57 1/4, up 5 3/4 to 2 3/4 cents; No. 2 yellow sorghum, rail, unavailable; No. 2 yellow sorghum, barge, unavailable; and No. 2 yellow soybeans, barge, $10.68 3/4 to $10.78 3/4, up 1 cent.
Colby, Kan., unit train wheat bid was $4.43.
In Denver and the surrounding area, hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, was $4.15 to $4.50.
No. 1 hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, north central Colorado, was mostly steady, at $4.04 to $4.35.
In northeast Colorado, wheat was $4.15 to $4.47.
In east central Colorado, wheat was $4.15 to $4.25.
In southeast Colorado, wheat was $4.30 to $4.75.
In southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming, wheat bids were $4.10 to $4.46.
No. 2 yellow corn in north central Colorado was mostly 5 to 6 cents higher and $3.87 to $4.03 per bushel.
In northeast Colorado, the country elevator corn bids were $3.49 to $3.72.
In east central Colorado, corn was $3.47 to $3.54.
In southeast Colorado, corn was $3.47 to $3.89.
In southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming, corn bids were $3.48 to $3.57 per bushel.
No. 2 yellow sorghum in southeast Colorado was 9 cents higher at $6.14 to $6.20 per cwt.
No. 1 yellow soybeans in southwest Nebraska were mostly 1 cent higher at $8.88 to $8.89 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 $3.87 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.