# West Plains Receives First Unit Train of Grain at Port of Brownsville - Port of Brownsville

> West Plains LLC received its first grain shipment of the season at the Port of Brownsville on April 25, a 109-railcar train of corn from Nebraska. The elevator has 3 million bushels of capacity and expects about 220 railcars monthly. Corn will be trucked to feedlots and to Mexican states.

- Date: 2017-04-26 · published 2017-04-26T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: logistics · region US · magnitude low
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/71509-west-plains-receives-first-unit-train-of-grain-at-port-of-brownsville-port-of
- Commodities: [Corn](https://feedsoft.ai/c/CORN.md)

## Why it matters

Reopening a Texas export and distribution point adds corn handling capacity for Mexican feed demand, supporting US Gulf corn flows to Mexico.

## Read by commodity

- CORN: bullish ▲

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| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| CORN | 2020-03-21 | [Grain receivers will strike at ports](https://feedsoft.ai/events/54137-grain-receivers-will-strike-at-ports.md) | -0.8% | -5.0% |
| CORN | 2019-06-11 | [Ukraine: in the first week of June, the seaports halved grain shipment volumes](https://feedsoft.ai/events/58443-ukraine-in-the-first-week-of-june-the-seaports-halved-grain-shipment-volumes.md) | +6.2% | +3.2% |
| CORN | 2017-04-29 | [Grain Shipping Starts on The Brownsville Rio Grande International Railway - OmniTRAX](https://feedsoft.ai/events/71510-grain-shipping-starts-on-the-brownsville-rio-grande-international-railway.md) | +1.1% | +4.2% |
| CORN | 2025-08-19 | [Ships Queue at Russian Grain Port](https://feedsoft.ai/events/14183-ships-queue-at-russian-grain-port.md) | +1.2% | +8.5% |
| CORN | 2023-05-22 | [UN concerned by lack of grain ships going to one Ukrainian port \| Reuters](https://feedsoft.ai/events/14394-un-concerned-by-lack-of-grain-ships-going-to-one-ukrainian-port-reuters.md) | +8.2% | +6.2% |

## Sources

- portofbrownsville.com: https://www.portofbrownsville.com/west-plains-accepts-first-units-of-grain-at-port-of-brownsville/

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