By Kirk Maltais Wheat for July delivery rose 1.1%, to $6.95 3/4 a bushel, on the Chicago Board of Trade on Tuesday, in response to questions about the amount of rainfall predicted for U.S. crops as well as uncertainty around Russia s diplomatic .
URBANA, Ill. – The value of waterborne commerce in the tri-state region of Illinois, Iowa, and Missouri in immense. The Heart of the Corn Belt handles enough freight tonnage to be ranked as the equivalent of the largest inland port in the nation.
In a free online webinar by University of Illinois Extension and Rural Partners, Robert Sinkler will discuss the establishment of the Illinois Waterway, which handles more than 34 million tons of freighter each year, as an integrated U.S. Port Statistical Area by the U.S. Waterborne Commerce Statistics Center.
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