April 10 (Reuters) - Chicago Board of Trade wheat futures closed down on Thursday as the U.S. Department of Agriculture released its monthly supply and demand report.
CBOT May soft red winter wheat WK25 settled down 4-1/4 cents at $5.38 per bushel.
K.C. May hard red winter wheat KWK25 ended down 10 cents at $5.58 per bushel, and Minneapolis May spring wheat MWEK25 lost 6-3/4 cents to finish at $6.02 a bushel.
The USDA reported U.S. wheat ending stocks at 846 million bushels, up from its March estimate of 819 million.
Analysts, on average, expected the agency to put wheat ending stocks at 825 million bushels, according to a Reuters poll.
Turkey resumed purchases of Russian wheat this year after lifting import restrictions in March, data released on Wednesday showed, and within the space of a month became the third-largest importer.