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The first barge of the 2017 season reached St. Paul on March 10 after an early ice-out on Lake Pepin. The early opening of the Upper Mississippi grain shipping season gives shippers another downriver route.
An earlier start to river shipping adds capacity and competition for barge freight, which can lower transport costs for grain and feed moving on the upper river.
dtnpf.comMary KennedyMar 13, 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.
