High Water Continues to Slow Grain Transport on the Mississippi River
Date Posted: May. 08, 2008
This article is reprinted from the USDA's May 8 Grain Transportation Report.
Since the beginning of April, the average weekly number of grain barges unloaded in New Orleans has decreased 21 percent compared with the same period last year.
With the Mississippi River at its highest levels in 15 years, flood conditions in the Midwestern states and along the Mississippi, Ohio, Illinois, and Arkansas Rivers have slowed grain barge traffic since mid-March.
As of May 8, four locks on the Upper Mississippi River are closed due to high water.
For more information, call Surajudeen (Deen) Olowolayemo, USDA, at 202-690-1328.
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