# Slow Corn Harvest Scrambles Trade Routes, Pricing Across U.S. | 2019-11-26  | SupplyChainBrain

> The most-delayed U.S. corn harvest on record has split the Midwest market and reversed normal trade routes. Eastern farmers are holding back grain, lifting local cash prices above futures, while western corn is pulled east as a basis arbitrage opportunity.

- Date: 2019-11-26 · published 2019-11-26T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: logistics · region US · magnitude medium
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/56091-slow-corn-harvest-scrambles-trade-routes-pricing-across-u-s-2019-11-26
- Commodities: [Corn](https://feedsoft.ai/c/CORN.md), [Barge Freight (St. Louis)](https://feedsoft.ai/c/BARGE.md)

## Why it matters

Eastern processors and feeders face tight local corn supply, which supports cash basis there, while the flow of western corn to the east is an unusual logistics shift that could tighten feed availability in the east.

## Read by commodity

- CORN: bullish ▲
- BARGE: bullish ▲

## Similar past events

| Commodity | Date | Event | 5-day % | 20-day % |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| CORN | 2020-10-02 | [Producers Fear Losing Harvest if Rail Strike Continues \| Feed & Grain](https://feedsoft.ai/events/50670-producers-fear-losing-harvest-if-rail-strike-continues-feed-and-grain.md) | -1.1% | +5.3% |
| CORN | 2022-07-18 | [Trouble Shipping Grain And Feed Via Rail Far From Over, Concerns Now Growing About Possible Worker Strike At Harvest - AgWeb](https://feedsoft.ai/events/40495-trouble-shipping-grain-and-feed-via-rail-far-from-over-concerns-now-growing.md) | -4.0% | +0.7% |
| CORN | 2017-03-03 | [U.S. Gulf Corn Hits Post-Harvest Highs as PNW Port Gridlock Persists](https://feedsoft.ai/events/71882-u-s-gulf-corn-hits-post-harvest-highs-as-pnw-port-gridlock-persists.md) | -3.2% | -2.8% |
| CORN | 2016-11-18 | [Record Harvest Spells More Trouble for Conflict-Hit Ukraine - Bloomberg](https://feedsoft.ai/events/73855-record-harvest-spells-more-trouble-for-conflict-hit-ukraine-bloomberg.md) | +2.1% | +4.0% |
| CORN | 2022-04-10 | [Grains shipments from Black Sea ports slowly gain traction: sources - Supply Chain Council of European Union \| Scceu.org](https://feedsoft.ai/events/14493-grains-shipments-from-black-sea-ports-slowly-gain-traction-sources-supply-chain.md) | +2.0% | -2.3% |

## Sources

- supplychainbrain.com: https://www.supplychainbrain.com/articles/30540-slow-corn-harvest-scrambles-trade-routes-pricing-across-us

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