The combination of slower barge traffic on the Mississippi, slower rail movement and increasing harvest pressure have combined to pull cash grain prices down in the central and eastern corn belt as ...

The good news: agriculture has a strong export market for its commodities right now. The bad news: anyone needing to move corn and soybeans down the Mississippi River and under the Hernando de Soto ...

SAO PAULO, Oct 13 (Reuters) - A severe drought is disrupting barge traffic on the Tapajos river in the Amazon rainforest, shipping agencies told clients this week as Brazil enters the final months of ...

The Port of Walla Walla's Burbank Industrial Park is poised to become a major wheat storage and shipping hub for southeastern Washington. The port recently entered into a 25-year lease agreement with ...

HENDERSON, Ky. − Henderson County farmers for years have longed for a second major grain buyer here to which they could market their corn and soybeans. Having another sizable grain elevator competing ...

Grain barge shipping came to a near standstill in parts of the U.S. Midwest on Thursday as recent heavy rain and melting snow swelled rivers, halted barge loading and sidelined the towboats that haul ...

The United States Department of Agriculture’s Oct. 14 World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates showed yields for both corn and soybeans dropping. Total U.S. corn production stood at 13.09 ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Harvesting the largest U.S. corn crop on record and transporting it on railroads and rivers to markets here and abroad is driving up costs for rail cars, barges and trucks in the ...

Demand for ferrous scrap is putting greater stress on suppliers to get their material to their customers as quickly as possible. While it is widely known that China has been soaking up a significant ...