Grain Market Close

(High Plains/Midwest Ag Journal) –  The USDA Market News Service, Greeley, Colo., in the closing grain report for Aug. 15, reported in futures trading that Chicago September soft red winter wheat was $4.29 1/2, down 11 1/2 cents; September corn, $3.55 1/4, down 7 1/2 cents; and November soybeans, $9.24 1/4, down 14 cents.

The export bid for direct Gulf delivery of No. 1 hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, rail, $4.26 1/2 to $5.01 1/2, down 10 1/4 cents; No. 2 soft red winter wheat, barge, $4.61 1/2 to $4.67 1/2, down 11 1/2 to 9 1/2 cents; No. 2 yellow corn, barge, $3.73 1/4 to $3.82 1/4, down 7 1/2 to 8 1/2 cents; No. 2 yellow sorghum, rail, $7.65 1/4 to $8.01, down 13 3/4 cents; No. 2 yellow sorghum, barge, unavailable; and No. 2 yellow soybeans, barge, $9.69 1/4 to $9.76 1/4, down 14 to 11 cents.

Colby, Kan., unit train wheat bid was $3.28.

In Denver and the surrounding area, hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, was $3.12 to $3.47.

No. 1 hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, north central Colorado, was mostly 10 to 11 cents lower, at $3.06 to $3.17.

In northeast Colorado, wheat was $2.91 to $3.42.

In east central Colorado, wheat was $3.06 to $3.27.

In southeast Colorado, wheat was $3.27 to $4.23.

In southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming, wheat bids were $3.15 to $3.42.

No. 2 yellow corn in north central Colorado was mostly 8 cents lower and $3.45 to $3.75 per bushel.

In northeast Colorado, the country elevator corn bids were $3.12 to $3.45.

In east central Colorado, corn was $2.90 to $3.20.

In southeast Colorado, corn was $3.23 to $3.50.

In southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming, corn bids were $3.10 to $3.25 per bushel.

No. 2 yellow sorghum in southeast Colorado was mostly 14 cents lower at $5.09 per cwt.

No. 1 yellow soybeans in southwest Nebraska were mostly 14 cents lower at $7.94 to $8.24 per bushel.

White millet in Colorado, southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming was $6 to $7 per cwt., mostly $6.

Sunflowers were $15.50 to $16.50 cwt.

In Denver and surrounding areas, corn was $3.45 per bushel. Barley was unavailable.

In northeast Colorado, Wyoming and western Nebraska, pinto beans were steady $28 per cwt; in North Dakota and Minnesota, pinto beans were steady $27 to $28. In North Dakota and Minnesota, black beans were steady $28 to $30. Great Northerns were steady at $28 in northeast Colorado, Wyoming and western Nebraska. In North Dakota and Minnesota, navy beans were steady $27 to $28. In northeast Colorado, Wyoming and western Nebraska, light red kidneys were steady $33; in North Dakota and Minnesota, light red kidneys were steady $33.