The leader of the Soybean Transportation Coalition says several farm organizations remain willing to put a million dollars into a vital Mississippi River lock and dam project.
Executive Director Mike Steenhoek tells Brownfield farmers have offered to put a million dollars towards pre-engineering and design for Lock and Dam #25 just upstream from St. Louis at Winfield, Missouri. “That essentially just underscores how these farmer organizations like the United Soybean Board and a number of individual state farmer organizations, Soy Transportation Coalition is a part of that as well, that there’s this commitment by these farmers to remain the most competitive in the international marketplace.”
Like many of the locks, number 25 is 600 feet long and was opened in May of 1939.
