Grain market close
The USDA Market News Service, Greeley, Colo., in the closing grain report for April 24, reported in futures trading that Chicago May soft red winter wheat was $4.72 1/2, up 11 cents; May corn, $3.81 1/4, up 2 3/4 cents; and May soybeans, $10.22 1/4, up 1 1/2 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, $5.39 1/2 to $5.44 1/2, up 11 cents; No. 2 yellow corn, barge, $4.44 1/4 to $4.45 1/4, up 2 3/4 cents; No. 2 yellow sorghum, rail, unavailable; No. 2 yellow sorghum, barge, unavailable; and No. 2 yellow soybeans, barge, $10.72 1/4 to $10.92 1/4, up 1 1/2 cents.
Colby, Kan., unit train wheat bid was $4.37.
In Denver and the surrounding area, hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, was $4.08 to $4.33.
No. 1 hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, north central Colorado, was 9 to 10 cents higher, at $3.91 to $4.18.
In northeast Colorado, wheat was $4.02 to $4.36.
In east central Colorado, wheat was $4.02 to $4.18.
In southeast Colorado, wheat was $4.13 to $4.53.
In southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming, wheat bids were $4.11 to $4.36.
No. 2 yellow corn in north central Colorado was mostly 2 to 3 cents higher and $3.71 to $3.87 per bushel.
In northeast Colorado, the country elevator corn bids were $3.26 to $3.41.
In east central Colorado, corn was $3.24 to $3.41.
In southeast Colorado, corn was $3.26 to $3.75.
In southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming, corn bids were $3.33 to $3.42 per bushel.
No. 2 yellow sorghum in southeast Colorado was 3 to 4 cents higher at $5.38 to $5.91 per cwt.
No. 1 yellow soybeans in southwest Nebraska were 1 to 2 cents higher at $8.96 to $9.07 per bushel.
White millet in Colorado, southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming was $6.50 to $7.50 per cwt., mostly $7.
Sunflowers were $18 cwt.
In Denver and surrounding areas, corn was $3.71 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 $24 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.