The USDA Market News Service, Greeley, CO, in the closing grain report for Dec. 19, reported in futures trading that Chicago March soft red winter Wheat was $3.23 1/4, up 3 1/2 cents; March corn, $2.08 3/4, up 1 1/2 cents; and January soybeans, $6.08 1/2, up 16 1/4 cents.

The export bid for direct Gulf delivery of No. 1 hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, rail, $4.42 to $4.51, up 3 1/2 cents; No. 2 soft red winter wheat, barge, $3.73 1/4, up 5 1/2 cents; No. 2 yellow corn, barge, $2.63 3/4 to $2.64 3/4, up 1/4 cents; No. 2 yellow sorghum, rail, $4.35 to $4.44, up 2 cents; No. 2 yellow sorghum, barge, $4.80, up 6 to 2 cents; and No. 2 yellow soybeans, barge, $6.75 1/2, up 16 1/4 to 15 1/4 cents.

Omaha cash truck Wheat bid were not available.

Colby, KS, unit train Wheat bid was $3.35.

In Denver and the surrounding area, hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, was $3.54 to $3.70.

No. 1 hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, northwest Colorado was mostly 3 cents higher at $2.65.

In north central Colorado, Wheat was $3.35 to $3.57.

In northeast Colorado, Wheat was $3.38 to $3.46.

In east central Colorado, Wheat was $3.39 to $3.61.

In southeast Colorado, Wheat was $3.31 to $3.32.

In south central Colorado, Wheat was $3.01.

In southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming, Wheat bids were $3.40 to $3.46.

No. 2 yellow corn in north central Colorado was mostly one cent higher and $1..97 to $2.19 per bushel.

In northeast Colorado, the country elevator corn bids were $1.74 to $1.99.

In east central Colorado, corn was $1.87 to $1.91.

In southeast Colorado, corn was $1.84 to $2.03.

In southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming, corn bids were $1.69 to $1.78 per bushel.

No. 2 yellow sorghum in southeast Colorado was two to four cents higher at $2.80 to $2.93 per cwt.

No. 1 yellow soybeans in southwest Nebraska were 16 to 17 cents higher at $5.37 to $5.51 per bushel.

White millet in Colorado, southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming was $5.50 to $6 per cwt, mostly $5.50.

Sunflowers were $8 to $9 cwt.

In Denver and surrounding areas, corn was $1.98 to $2.10 per bushel. Barley was steady at $3.70.

In northeast Colorado and Nebraska, pinto beans were mostly $15 to $16 per cwt. Great Northerns were steady at $16 per cwt. Light red kidneys were steady at mostly $20 per cwt.