Arkansas Daily Grain

LR_GR111  
Little Rock, AR    Fri Mar 15, 2013    USDA- AR Coop Ext Service

                      Arkansas Daily Grain Report

   Prices quoted are today's closing cash or contract prices del. to these 
points. Prices are per bushel, except sorghum is per hundredweight (cwt). 

   Compared to last report: Cash soybeans were mostly 10 cents lower; New Crop 
soybeans were 1 cent higher; New Crop wheat was 1 cent higher; Cash sorghum was 
1 cent higher; cash corn was steady.


                          Country Elevator Prices

                    No 1        No 1        No 2        No 2       No 2
                    Yellow      Yellow      Soft Red    Yellow     Yellow
                    Soybeans    Soybeans    Wheat       Sorghum    Corn
                    Cash        New Crop    New Crop    Cash       Cash
Eastern Arkansas                                               
  Jonesboro         14.09       12.31        ----        ----       ----
  Wynne             14.36       12.36        7.01        ----       ----
  Wheatley          14.36       12.56        6.81        ----       ----
  Pendleton         14.46       12.61        6.91        ----       ----

River Elevator Prices
Mississippi River     
  Blytheville        ----       12.79        7.13       11.29       7.32
  West Memphis      14.53       12.81        7.33        ----       ---- 
  Helena             ----       12.84        7.15       11.38       7.33
  Old Town/Elaine   14.66       12.86        7.21        ----       7.52
  Osceola            ----       12.79        7.13       11.29       7.29
 
Arkansas/White River
  Augusta            ----       12.35        6.80       11.02       7.06
  Pine Bluff         ----       12.56        6.95       11.11       7.24
  Des Arc           14.11       12.36        ----        ----       ----

Arkansas Processors
  Little Rock       14.36       12.56        7.06        ----       7.12
  Stuttgart         14.36       12.51        6.91        ----       ----

*NA - Not Available

Source:   USDA- AR Coop Ext Service, Little Rock, AR
          Steve Cheney 501-671-2200
          www.ams.usda.gov/mnreports/LR_GR111.txt

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