Grain market close
The USDA Market News Service, Greeley, Colo., in the closing grain report for May 29, reported in futures trading that Chicago July soft red winter wheat was $5.36 1/2, down 6 1/2 cents; July corn, $4, down 6 cents; and July soybeans, $10.30 1/2, down 11 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, $5.86 1/2 to $5.95 1/2, down 6 1/2 cents; No. 2 yellow corn, barge, $4.54 to $4.56, down 5 to 4 cents; No. 2 yellow sorghum, rail, unavailable; No. 2 yellow sorghum, barge, unavailable; and No. 2 yellow soybeans, barge, $10.87 1/2 to $10.89 1/2, down 11 cents.
Colby, Kan., unit train wheat bid was $4.99.
In Denver and the surrounding area, hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, was $4.77 to $4.99.
No. 1 hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, north central Colorado, was mostly 7 cents lower, at $4.68 to $4.82.
In northeast Colorado, wheat was $4.67 to $5.
In east central Colorado, wheat was $4.61 to $4.87.
In southeast Colorado, wheat was $4.77 to $5.27.
In southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming, wheat bids were $4.57 to $4.98.
No. 2 yellow corn in north central Colorado was mostly 6 cents lower and $3.85 to $4.05 per bushel.
In northeast Colorado, the country elevator corn bids were $3.50 to $3.70.
In east central Colorado, corn was $3.45 to $3.52.
In southeast Colorado, corn was $3.60 to $3.89.
In southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming, corn bids were $3.46 to $3.55 per bushel.
No. 2 yellow sorghum in southeast Colorado was 11 cents lower at $6.14 to $6.43 per cwt.
No. 1 yellow soybeans in southwest Nebraska were 11 cents lower at $9 to $9.11 per bushel.
White millet in Colorado, southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming was $6.50 to $8 per cwt., mostly $7.50.
Sunflowers were $18 cwt.
In Denver and surrounding areas, corn was $3.85 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.