(High Plains/Midwest Ag Journal) – The USDA Market News Service, Greeley, Colo., in the closing grain report for Nov. 1, reported in futures trading that Chicago December soft red winter wheat was $4.14 1/4, down 2 cents; December corn, $3.49, down 5 3/4 cents; November soybeans, $9.84 1/4, down 18 cents and January soybeans, $9.93 1/4, down 18 1/2 cents.
The export bid for direct Gulf delivery of No. 1 hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, rail, $4.03 3/4 to $4.23 3/4, down 1 cent; No. 2 soft red winter wheat, barge, $4.64 1/4 to $4.69 1/4, down 2 cents; No. 2 yellow corn, barge, $3.95 to $4, down 5 3/4 cents; No. 2 yellow sorghum, rail, $6.50 to $6.59, down 10 1/4 cents; No. 2 yellow sorghum, barge, no quotes; and No. 2 yellow soybeans, barge, $10.19 1/4 to $10.35 1/4, down 19 to 21 cents.
Colby, Kan., unit train wheat bid was $2.89.
In Denver and the surrounding area, hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, was $2.79 to $3.09.
No. 1 hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, north central Colorado was mostly 1 cent lower, at $2.72 to $2.84.
In northeast Colorado, wheat was $2.59 to $3.09.
In east central Colorado, wheat was $2.59 to $2.79.
In southeast Colorado, wheat was $2.64 to $2.89.
In southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming, wheat bids were $2.59 to $3.09.
No. 2 yellow corn in north central Colorado was mostly 6 cents lower and $3.29 to $3.47 per bushel.
In northeast Colorado, the country elevator corn bids were $2.94 to $3.04.
In east central Colorado, corn was $2.79 to $2.89.
In southeast Colorado, corn was $2.74 to $2.99.
In southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming, corn bids were $2.97 to $3.01 per bushel.
No. 2 yellow sorghum in southeast Colorado was 11 cents lower at $4.09 to $4.45 per cwt.
No. 1 yellow soybeans in southwest Nebraska were 20 to 39 cents lower at $8.53 to $8.73 per bushel.
White millet in Colorado, southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming was $5 to $5.50 per cwt., mostly $5.
Sunflowers were $16 to $17 cwt.
In Denver and surrounding areas, corn was $3.29 per bushel. Barley was unavailable.
In northeast Colorado and Nebraska, pinto beans were steady $30 per cwt; in North Dakota and Minnesota, pinto beans were steady $30. In North Dakota and Minnesota, black beans were steady $30 to $32. Great Northerns were steady at $30 in northeast Colorado and Nebraska. In North Dakota and Minnesota, navy beans were steady $28. In northeast Colorado and Nebraska, light red kidneys were steady $32 to $33; in North Dakota and Minnesota, light red kidneys were steady $32 to $34.