Grain market close

The USDA Market News Service, Greeley, Colo., in the closing grain report for April 3, reported in futures trading that Chicago May soft red winter wheat was $4.57 1/2, up 11 1/4 cents; May corn, $3.88 1/2, up 1 1/4 cents; and July soybeans, $10.38, up 2 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, $5.15 1/2 to $5.22 1/2, up 11 1/4 cents; No. 2 yellow corn, barge, $4.34 1/2 to $4.37 1/2, up 1 1/4 cents; No. 2 yellow sorghum, rail, unavailable; No. 2 yellow sorghum, barge, unavailable; and No. 2 yellow soybeans, barge, $10.73 to $10.84, up 2 1/2 to 3 1/2 cents.

Colby, Kan., unit train wheat bid was $4.29.

In Denver and the surrounding area, hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, was $4 to $4.25.

No. 1 hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, north central Colorado, was mostly 17 cents higher, at $3.88 to $4.05.

In northeast Colorado, wheat was $3.95 to $4.28.

In east central Colorado, wheat was $3.95 to $4.10.

In southeast Colorado, wheat was $4.05 to $4.45.

In southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming, wheat bids were $4.02 to $4.28.

No. 2 yellow corn in north central Colorado was mostly 1 to 2 cents higher and $3.79 to $3.96 per bushel.

In northeast Colorado, the country elevator corn bids were $3.33 to $3.49.

In east central Colorado, corn was $3.32 to $3.49.

In southeast Colorado, corn was $3.33 to $3.76.

In southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming, corn bids were $3.40 to $3.43 per bushel.

No. 2 yellow sorghum in southeast Colorado was 4 cents higher at $5.52 to $6.14 per cwt.

No. 1 yellow soybeans in southwest Nebraska were mostly 3 cents higher at $9.23 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 $3.79 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.