mississippi river drought

By Michael Hirtzer (Bloomberg) — The shrinking Mississippi River has hobbled the most efficient channel for moving US soybeans onto world markets,

The world’s rivers are evaporating and this could be devastating for our food supply, our cities, and our transportation. Inland barges are ten times

By Kim Chipman (Bloomberg) –“Serious concerns” over critically low water levels in the Mississippi River system led port authorities to limit vessel

By Karl Plume Oct 20 (Reuters) – Low water levels on the Mississippi River are likely to persist this winter as drier-than-normal weather is

By Brian K. Sullivan (Bloomberg) — A drought is spreading across the US Midwest, drying up the Mississippi River and its tributaries that serve as a

By Brian K. Sullivan, Joe Deaux and Michael Hirtzer (Bloomberg) — The Mississippi River isn’t out of the woods as falling water levels along its major

By Karl Plume Oct 11 (Reuters) – U.S. crop exports at Louisiana Gulf Coast terminals were at their lowest level in nine years for the first

By Victoria Cavaliere (Bloomberg) — A backup of more than 2,000 boats and barges on the Mississippi River is being cleared as two closures along the

By Sophie Caronello (Bloomberg) Prolonged drought is jeopardizing waterborne trade along the Mississippi River, a basin that produces 92% of the

By Joe Deaux, Michael Hirtzer and Kim Chipman (Bloomberg) Shippers struggling to move grains and fertilizer along a dried-up Mississippi River are also racing

By Elizabeth Elkin, Will Wade and Michael Hirtzer (Bloomberg) — The Mississippi River is a vital US waterway that ferries key commodities between the

The U.S. Coast Guard has closed a section of the Lower Mississippi River for dredging. The river is closed near Stack Island, near Lake Providence, Louisiana,

Oct 6 (Reuters) – Ingram Barge Company, one of the country’s largest barge shippers, said Thursday it was “providing formal

The U.S. Coast Guard says it is responding to an increasing number of barge groundings due to low water levels in the Lower Mississippi River. The Coast Guard

By Karl Plume CHICAGO, Oct 4 (Reuters) – Commercial barge traffic on southern stretches of the Mississippi River was at a standstill on Tuesday

By Kim Chipman, Dominic Carey and Elizabeth Elkin (Bloomberg) — American farmers are facing yet another supply-chain headache just as harvest season