Making adjustments to counter growing-season challenges has proven more difficult because of the unpredictability of weather, leading farmers to explore and implement practices to make their farms more sustainable.
Everything that moves in a barge relies on the Mississippi River to keep commerce moving. Given the longstanding drought, that has become a tall order to fill.
Brazil s soybean crop isn t even half planted yet and traders are already concerned about its bearish impact on future prices. We have seen this before.
The Mississippi and Ohio Rivers are reaching record-breaking low levels, causing more headaches for everyone trying to get commodities moving up and down the river.
Besides the sandbars grounding barges and creating havoc for river terminals and farmers, saltwater is leaking into the Mississippi River at New Orleans.