An American Soybean Association director from Minnesota says
transportation is a big deal to soybean growers and improvements are needed.
Chris Hill, a fifth-generation farmer (in Brewster, MN) who
grows corn, soybeans and wheat and runs a small warehouse elevator and trucking
operation, says river improvements are priority ONE, “Getting the lower Mississippi
River dredged deeper so that they can allow the larger ships to come up the
river, so we don’t have to transload beans and other products from one ship to
another.”
Hill told Brownfield on the ASA stage at Commodity Classic
that deepening the river would add 13-cents a bushel to farmers’ pockets.
Continue reading MN soybean director on river and trucking needs at Brownfield Ag News.
