
The USDA AgTransport weekly bundle for week 45, with a report date of November 10, 2026, lists downbound barge tariff rates and per-ton freight rates across the Mississippi River System. Tariffs are highest on the Twin Cities segment and lowest at Cairo-Memphis.
Barge freight is a direct cost in delivering US corn and soybeans to Gulf export positions, so the level of downbound rates shifts the basis that farmers receive. The article is a routine data listing with no new cause for a price move.
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.