Deeper water is allowing crop handlers to supply exporters with more grain per barge and to lash more barges together
CHICAGO (Reuters) — Exporters have shipped soybeans from the busiest U.S. grains port at the fastest rate in nearly four years after rain raised water levels in the Mississippi River, government data showed. Some 60 per cent of U.S. soy exports depart from Gulf Coast terminals that draw supplies from barges traveling south on the […] Read moreTag Archives Mississippi River
Low Mississippi levels threaten exports
CHICAGO, Ill. (Reuters) — Low water conditions have led to several barges running aground along a key stretch of the lower Mississippi River, the U.S. Coast Guard said last week, just as the busiest U.S. grain export season gets underway. Low water levels are slowing export-bound barge shipments of grain and oilseeds from the Midwest […] Read more
Mississippi River nears historic lows
CHICAGO, Ill. (Reuters) — A key stretch of the lower Mississippi River dropped to within inches of its lowest-ever level near the end of September and is expected to remain near historic lows just as the busiest U.S. grain export season gets underway, according to the U.S. National Weather Service. Low water has slowed hauling […] Read more
Agriculture moves through the eras on the Mississippi
MINNEAPOLIS — The canal today is a silted-in wetland, home to a community of songbirds, bugs, marsh plants and hardy riparian weeds that have found a home along the stone and brickwork of the broken wharf. Rising above it are the ruins of Minneapolis mills, the broken walls, rusting iron and half-hidden arches providing mute […] Read more
