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A 2025 USDA-style report describes the importance of the U.S. waterway system to agriculture, noting barges carried 291.0 million tons of food and farm products in 2023 and move about half of grain destined for export. It also outlines fiscal 2025 agricultural export and import forecasts.
Reliance on barges means any disruption to river infrastructure raises freight costs and widens local basis, lowering farm-gate prices in affected interior regions.
doi.orgApr 1, 2025Not enough comparable past events yet for a historical read.
Moves of each commodity's benchmark from the last close before the event. Historical reads pool past events of the same kind; they describe what happened, not what will. Not investment advice.
