Water levels in parts of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers are expected to soon reach critically low stages in the face of ...

This is a peak period when corn and soybeans from the Midwest get shipped downriver to New Orleans for export to the ...

Data from the American Commercial Barge Line, shows that loading draughts for barges are down 24% on the river between Cairo, Illinois, and the Gulf. Barges carried 129,900 tons of grain down the ...

Last Wednesday, the corn market pulled back to a technical point and Thursday it bounced off it. Fundamentally, crops aren’t made or lost in May, so debates over planted acres and Chinese demand for ...

CHICAGO, Sept 30 (Reuters) - Numerous barges have run aground on the lower Mississippi River and grain barge shipping rates are soaring to historic highs this week, as drought has dropped inland ...

Parts of the Mississippi River are so low from weeks of drought that barge traffic is being limited at the worst possible time — as crop harvests begin. Some Mississippi River communities between St.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A long stretch of hot, dry weather has left the Mississippi River so low that barge companies are reducing their loads just as Midwest farmers are preparing to harvest crops ...

The number of train cars carrying grain across he state dropped in July. The DOT’s Stuart Anderson told the Transportation Commission today that July continues what has been a downward trend. “Which ...

SAO PAULO, Oct 19 (Reuters) - Some grain shipments on rivers in Northern Brazil have been halted due to a drought that has sent Amazon river tributaries to the lowest level in over a century, ...