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The Soy Transportation Coalition sent stakeholders a Top 10 wish list of infrastructure priorities for agricultural competitiveness. Items include lock and dam maintenance, deeper dredging of the Lower Mississippi, a Columbia River channel depth, heavier trucks and a fuel tax increase.
The list also proposes steps to offset the effects of trade disputes.
These are advocacy recommendations with no enacted policy, so they do not change supply or demand now. If adopted, lock reliability and channel depth improvements would lower logistics costs for soybean exports.
waterwaysjournal.netHeather ErvinAug 13, 2018Not enough comparable past events yet for a historical read.
After 1,623 past policy events, Corn moved a median +0.1% over 5 sessions (51% higher; middle half -1.4% to +1.5%), and +0.4% over 20.
After 1,905 past policy events, Soybeans moved a median +0.1% over 5 sessions (52% higher; middle half -1.4% to +1.8%), and +0.2% over 20.
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.
