# Louis Dreyfus Company opens new grain terminal | World-grain.com | March 07, 2017 13:42 | World Grain

> Louis Dreyfus Company opened a truck-to-barge grain terminal in West Memphis, Arkansas, with 800,000 bushels of storage on the Mississippi River. The facility receives, stores and ships corn and soybeans from the mid-Delta region and feeds the company's Baton Rouge export facility.

- Date: 2017-03-07 · published 2017-03-07T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: logistics · region US · magnitude low
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/71889-louis-dreyfus-company-opens-new-grain-terminal-world-grain-com-march-07-2017-13
- Commodities: [Corn](https://feedsoft.ai/c/CORN.md), [Soybeans](https://feedsoft.ai/c/SOY.md)

## Why it matters

The new origination capacity improves barge access to Gulf export channels for regional corn and soybeans, which may modestly firm local basis over time but does not change the national supply balance.

## Read by commodity

- SOY: neutral
- CORN: neutral

## Similar past events

| Commodity | Date | Event | 5-day % | 20-day % |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| CORN | 2017-03-06 | [Louis Dreyfus Company inaugurates new terminal  in West Memphis, Arkansas](https://feedsoft.ai/events/71894-louis-dreyfus-company-inaugurates-new-terminal-in-west-memphis-arkansas.md) | -3.8% | -2.0% |
| CORN | 2017-04-06 | [IFC loan to support new grain terminal at Black Sea port \| World-grain.com \| April 06, 2017 13:39 \| World Grain](https://feedsoft.ai/events/71357-ifc-loan-to-support-new-grain-terminal-at-black-sea-port-world-grain-com-april.md) | +0.6% | -0.3% |
| CORN | 2021-07-19 | [New grain terminal opens on “Ag Coast of America”](https://feedsoft.ai/events/45962-new-grain-terminal-opens-on-ag-coast-of-america.md) | -1.1% | +0.0% |
| CORN | 2017-04-13 | [Decreased demand for grain transportation lowers shipping rates \| World-grain.com \| April 13, 2017 14:17 \| World Grain](https://feedsoft.ai/events/71400-decreased-demand-for-grain-transportation-lowers-shipping-rates-world-grain-com.md) | -2.1% | +0.9% |
| CORN | 2017-03-06 | [Weekly Grain Movement – March 6, 2017](https://feedsoft.ai/events/71890-weekly-grain-movement-march-6-2017.md) | -3.8% | -2.0% |
| SOY | 2017-03-06 | [Louis Dreyfus Company inaugurates new terminal  in West Memphis, Arkansas](https://feedsoft.ai/events/71894-louis-dreyfus-company-inaugurates-new-terminal-in-west-memphis-arkansas.md) | -3.0% | -7.9% |
| SOY | 2017-03-06 | [Weekly Grain Movement – March 6, 2017](https://feedsoft.ai/events/71890-weekly-grain-movement-march-6-2017.md) | -3.0% | -7.9% |
| SOY | 2020-04-01 | [Shipping markets in flux amid COVID-19 chaos \| 2020-04-01  \| World Grain](https://feedsoft.ai/events/53529-shipping-markets-in-flux-amid-covid-19-chaos-2020-04-01-world-grain.md) | -3.5% | -6.1% |

## Sources

- world-grain.com: https://www.world-grain.com/articles/7812-louis-dreyfus-company-opens-new-grain-terminal

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