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Barge loading resumed on the Mississippi River at the Quad Cities after navigation near St. Louis restarted as flood waters receded. New grain sales were light because of limited supplies, and farmers were focused on planting.
Corn planting was ahead of average in Iowa and Illinois.
Restored river navigation should ease barge freight costs and reduce logistics bottlenecks for grain moving down the Mississippi.
grains.orgMay 11, 2017
feedstuffs.comBob Burgdorfer 1May 17, 2017Not enough comparable past events yet for a historical read.
Not 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.
