High water on the Mississippi River is typical during spring, but the manager of a co-op on the river says they are on alert for worse conditions that will impact grain shipping.
Roger Hugenberg is with Ursa Farmers Cooperative in west central Illinois.
“We’ve had a limited number of days that we could ship and actually receive barges. I think we’ve had four days since the river opened up that we could actually load barges north of lock and dam 20.”
He tells Brownfield it looks like the water will go down in the next few days, but they are fearful of an event similar to locations near the Missouri River.
