River barges are an efficient way to move crops — 15 barges can hold about as much grain as 1,000 semi-trucks. But low river ...
Climatologists say it could be part of a larger trend. For the third year in a row, extreme drought conditions in the Midwest ...
An influx of salt water in the Mississippi River, which feeds southeastern Louisiana’s drinking water supplies, is once again ...
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(Bloomberg) -- Drought across the central US is shrinking the Mississippi River, sending barge rates soaring and threatening to roil shipments of everything from corn to gasoline. Dry conditions ...