The lack of precipitation in parts of the U.S. has created a problem for shipping agricultural commodities.
Mike Steenhoek with the Soy Transportation Coalition tells Brownfield less rain means less water flowing in America’s inland waterway system…forcing shippers to put less cargo in barges. “There’s this concern that if you load it to a full capacity, it’s going to scrape the bottom of the channel, and we’ve already had a number of groundings already.”
Steenhoek says less water in the lower Mississippi River not only means a shallow shipping channel, it also makes that channel narrower.
