12/29/99 -- 3:29 PM

MP Cash Grain, 276


MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Wheat receipts Wednesday 103, a year ago 209.

Spring wheat cash trading basis: steady to one cent higher, mostly steady.

(Prices reflect No. 1 milling quality only. Milling quality is defined as: 275 or better falling numbers; 58 lbs or better; 13.5 percent or less moisture; 1.5 percent or less damage, 1.5 percent or less dockage and 2.0 ppm or less vomitoxin.)

No. 1 dark 13-15 percent protein:

Prices: mostly 3/4 cents lower from 3.43 1/2 to 4.06 1/2

Test weight premiums: 0 to 1 cent each 1/2 pound 58 to 60 lbs; 1 to 2 cent discount for each 1/2 pound 58 to 56 lbs. Non-milling discounts: .85 to 1.75 cents.

Protein prices: 11 percent, no quote;

12 percent, no quote;

13 percent, 3.43 1/2 to 3.46 1/2 no comparison

14 percent, 3.51 1/2 bid to 3.56 1/2

14.5 percent, 3.66 1/2 nominal to 3.71 1/2 down 3/4

15 percent, 3.91 1/2 nominal to 4.06 1/2 down 3/4

16 percent, no quote;

17 percent, no quote.

Hard red winter wheat: 12 percent protein no quote; 13 percent no quote.

H-A-D choice milling: 4.00 bid to 4.25 asked

balance milling: 3.75

terminal Minneapolis no quote;

Duluth: no quote

Number traded: milling 0 cars; top traded milling 0 cars.

Off grade as low as no quote Minneapolis, no quote. Discounts, amber 5 to 10 cents; durum 10 to 40 cents.

Corn No. 2 yellow Minneapolis: 1.63 3/4 bid down 1

Milling Oats No. 1 & 2: no quote

Non-milling oats: no quote

Barley cars 35, a year ago 62.

Malting 70 Pl: no quote

MorexRobust: no quote

Excel: no quote

No. 2 feed barley Duluth: no bid

Minneapolis: 1.35 bid

Rye No. 1 Pl: no quote; No. 2: no quote

Soybeans No. 1 yellow Minneapolis: no bid

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