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River terminals in the Upper Mississippi Twin Cities District are waiting for ice on Lake Pepin to melt so the first barge can reach St. Paul and open the 2018 shipping season. As of March 14 the ice was still too thick for tows to pass.
Delayed upper river opening keeps a lower-cost barge route closed for northern grain and feed shippers, so they rely more on rail and trucking until navigation resumes.
dtnpf.comMary KennedyMar 19, 2018Not 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.
