# Barge Traffic Influenced by High Water | Red River Farm Network

> A large part of the Mississippi River system is shut down by high water, and the river may not crest between Quincy and Muscatine for about two weeks. Upper River Services expects the next 500 miles to stay closed through most of April, the second-latest opening on record. About 125 loads of fertilizer are waiting below the locks to move north to St. Paul.

- Date: 2019-03-27 · published 2019-03-27T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: logistics · region US · magnitude medium
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/59986-barge-traffic-influenced-by-high-water-red-river-farm-network
- Commodities: [Barge Freight (St. Louis)](https://feedsoft.ai/c/BARGE.md), [Urea](https://feedsoft.ai/c/UREA.md)

## Why it matters

A prolonged closure leaves fertilizer stranded and raises freight costs for spring planting, supporting urea prices and barge rates in the Upper Midwest.

## Read by commodity

- UREA: bullish ▲
- BARGE: bullish ▲

## Similar past events

| Commodity | Date | Event | 5-day % | 20-day % |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| UREA | 2022-04-04 | [Fertilizer Logistics May Be Challenging \| Red River Farm Network](https://feedsoft.ai/events/16722-fertilizer-logistics-may-be-challenging-red-river-farm-network.md) | -8.5% | -27.6% |
| UREA | 2023-04-27 | [Flooding on Upper Mississippi River to halt barge traffic for weeks, USDA says](https://feedsoft.ai/events/16633-flooding-on-upper-mississippi-river-to-halt-barge-traffic-for-weeks-usda-says.md) | +3.6% | +3.9% |
| UREA | 2023-04-28 | [Flooding Impacts Upper Mississippi Barge Traffic, as “Corn Hit its Lowest in Nine Months” \| Farm Policy News \| Illinois](https://feedsoft.ai/events/16638-flooding-impacts-upper-mississippi-barge-traffic-as-corn-hit-its-lowest-in-nine.md) | -0.7% | +2.8% |
| UREA | 2023-04-19 | [Barge operations to stop as Mississippi rises increasing costs to farmers](https://feedsoft.ai/events/16636-barge-operations-to-stop-as-mississippi-rises-increasing-costs-to-farmers.md) | +2.3% | +6.8% |
| UREA | 2022-12-22 | [Mississippi and Ohio Rivers Hit Rock Bottom in Fall 2022](https://feedsoft.ai/events/16668-mississippi-and-ohio-rivers-hit-rock-bottom-in-fall-2022.md) | -1.7% | -11.8% |

## Sources

- rrfn.com: https://www.rrfn.com/2019/03/27/barge-traffic-influenced-by-high-water/

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