Hurricane Ida’s destructive winds are wreaking havoc on a vital export shipping vein, as grain elevators and barge traffics continue to be tangled from the impacts of the hurricane this week. Monday, ...

Numerous barges have run aground on the lower Mississippi River and grain barge shipping rates are soaring to historic highs this week, Reuters reports, hampering already sluggish grain exports from ...

The water level of the Mississippi River is unusually low for the third straight year, forcing barge companies to put limits on how much cargo they can carry and cutting into farm profits. It was just ...

River barges are an efficient way to move crops — 15 barges can hold about as much grain as 1,000 semi-trucks. But low river levels are driving up transportation costs for Midwest farmers. The ...

A vessel had reported striking bottom or an unknown object, resulting in one grain barge sinking in the navigable channel, in the vicinity of mile 83 on the Upper River, near Grand Tower, Ill., ...

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FILE - Barges float in the Mississippi River as a portion of the riverbed is exposed, Sept. 15, 2023, in St. Louis. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson, File) ST. LOUIS (AP) — The water level of the Mississippi ...