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Some bulk shipments, including fertilizer, are on hold until flooding on the Mississippi River subsides.

Stalled shipments latest blow to U.S. farmers

Transportation woes are the latest headache in a sector plagued by slumping profits

By Karl Plume May 15, 2019

Farm supplier CHS has dozens of barges, loaded with fertilizer, trapped on the flood-swollen Mississippi River near St. Louis — about 500 miles from the company’s two Minnesota distribution hubs. The barges can’t move — or get crucial nutrients to corn farmers for the spring planting season — because river locks on the main U.S.

(Ablokhin/iStock Editorial/Getty Images)

Crops, Markets

CBOT weekly outlook: Markets brace for weather, trade war

By GFM Network News April 10, 2019

MarketsFarm — With the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s world agriculture supply and demand estimates (WASDE) report in the rearview mirror, the Chicago Board of Trade is trading largely on weather forecasts and flood reports. Markets did react, however, when the WASDE report dropped on Tuesday. “We did see some short covering in the market yesterday

The Mississippi River. (Mark D. Tomer photo courtesy ARS/USDA)

Crops, Weather

New Year’s Day cold snap to hit U.S. winter wheat, rivers

By GFM Network News, Julie Ingwersen December 29, 2017

Chicago | Reuters — A New Year’s Day cold snap in the southern U.S. Plains poses a threat to winter wheat, particularly in Kansas, the country’s biggest producer of the grain, agricultural meteorologists said. Farmers in Kansas grow hard red winter (HRW) wheat, the largest U.S. wheat class that typically is milled into flour for

Crops

Soaring river freight hits U.S. farmers

By GFM Network News, Karl Plume October 2, 2017

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. farmers are running out of options for their just-harvested corn and soybeans as delays on the Mississippi River, the main conduit for crops to export markets, cause shipping backlogs, while grain storage on the river’s banks is filling up. Low river levels and backups at aging locks have slowed navigation

Crops

Barge glut chokes U.S. shipping sector despite record harvest

By GFM Network News, Karl Plume, Michael Hirtzer February 24, 2017

Chicago | Reuters — A glut of idled river barges is clogging Mississippi River shorelines from St. Louis to New Orleans, leaving U.S. barge companies that haul grain, coal and other bulk goods counting their losses. Even with record-large exports of corn and soybeans, typically a boon for shippers that haul grain to Gulf Coast

Crops, Weather

Nitrates to linger for decades in N-heavy waterways, study finds

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff March 18, 2016

Lakes, rivers, streams and well water high in nitrates will stay that way for another 35 years or more, even if farmers in those watersheds were to stop applying nitrogen (N) fertilizer on their fields today, a new study shows. The study of the Mississippi River basin, published Tuesday by Canadian and U.S. researchers, shows

Cereals, Crops, Weather

Ardent’s Illinois flour mills reopened

By GFM Network News, Reuters January 22, 2016

Chicago | Reuters –– Ardent Mills, the largest U.S. flour miller, said operations resumed on Thursday at its mill at Chester, Illinois, that had been closed since Dec. 29 due to near-record flooding on the Mississippi River. Mill staff “have gone ‘above and beyond’ to conduct extensive cleaning and sanitizing to return the mill back

Overland flooding in Missouri on Jan. 1. (Steve Zumwalt photo courtesy FEMA)

Crops, Weather

Barge accidents rise on flood-swollen Mississippi River

By GFM Network News, Karl Plume January 15, 2016

Chicago | Reuters –– The U.S. Coast Guard temporarily halted shipping traffic on the Mississippi River in New Orleans on Friday after a tow boat struck stationary barges in a fleeting area, marking at least the fifth barge accident this week on the flood-swollen river. High water has severely restricted barge shipping traffic on the

Crops, Weather

U.S. grain shippers await El Nino dryness after unseasonable flood

By GFM Network News, Karl Plume January 5, 2016

Chicago | Reuters –– The clear Midwestern skies that El Nino cycles typically bring could be a boon to the U.S. heartland this spring, after recent record rain levels soaked the region, swamping farmland and disrupting grain export shipments on swollen rivers. Farm fields across the Midwest are saturated, according to the U.S. Department of

(Michael Thompson photo courtesy ARS/USDA)

Crops, Weather

Ardent restarts Illinois flour mill after flooding

By GFM Network News, Michael Hirtzer January 5, 2016

Chicago | Reuters –– The largest U.S. flour miller, Ardent Mills, has resumed operations in Alton, Illinois, as floodwaters along the Mississippi River receded while a mill at Chester, Ill. will remain down for weeks, company executives said Tuesday. Near record-high floodwaters following deadly winter storms forced the company to shut down the mills a

Canada left with very tight canola, barley stocks

U.S. grains: Corn, soy futures hit multi-year highs on supply fears

U.S. livestock: CME cattle futures up on beef prices, demand

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Canada left with very tight canola, barley stocks

U.S. grains: Corn, soy futures hit multi-year highs on supply fears

U.S. livestock: CME cattle futures up on beef prices, demand

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Stalled shipments latest blow to U.S. farmers

CBOT weekly outlook: Markets brace for weather, trade war

New Year’s Day cold snap to hit U.S. winter wheat, rivers

Soaring river freight hits U.S. farmers

Barge glut chokes U.S. shipping sector despite record harvest

Nitrates to linger for decades in N-heavy waterways, study finds

Ardent’s Illinois flour mills reopened

Barge accidents rise on flood-swollen Mississippi River

U.S. grain shippers await El Nino dryness after unseasonable flood

Ardent restarts Illinois flour mill after flooding

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