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Local, state and federal officials and conservation groups met in Dubuque, Iowa, to discuss upper Mississippi River flood risk. Participants agree on a coordinated strategy but disagree on whether levees or other measures should be prioritized.
Heavy rain and flooding have increased in the region over the past decade.
Flood-control decisions affect river navigation and cropland exposure in the Upper Mississippi grain corridor, but no near-term change to supply or freight is set by this meeting.
stlpr.orgEli ChenJul 28, 2017Not 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.
