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The Mississippi River is in dire need of rain throughout the system as terminals struggle to load out harvest bushels.

Water levels in the Lower Mississippi River have been falling for months and relief may not be in sight.

The U.S. all-winter wheat harvest is almost complete as the Pacific Northwest has less than 10% of the crop left to harvest.

In less than one week, rail workers could walk off the job, leaving railroads stranded and commerce in an uproar.

The deadline is approaching next week to end the 30-day cooling off period for rail workers to accept the latest contract proposals from the Presidential Emergency Board (PEB 250), and not all unions have agreed to the terms. Agricultural groups have called for Congress to step in to avoid...

Two weeks after the Presidential Emergency Board issued recommendations for a contract between rail workers and railroads, the majority of workers are not in agreement. Some unions are making it clear they want to keep working to reach agreements...

Given the poor stands seen in some new crop corn fields, especially in the southern Midwest and south, end users may have to pull from other areas to buy corn.

The Presidential Emergency Board recently released their nonbinding recommendations for rail workers and railroads to consider.

Germany's most important waterway is drying up, creating serious concerns that commerce on the river will be stopped.

The Freight Rail Shipping Fair Market Act was introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives, which would reauthorize the Surface Transportation Board.

Recently, the U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Railroad Administration proposed a rule that would require a two-man crew as railroads are pursuing changing to one-man crews.

Independent truckers have been striking at the Port of Oakland for nearly a week, creating serious slowdowns there.

President Biden created a Presidential Emergency Board in the hopes of helping rail-worker unions and railroads settle ongoing contract issues.

A recent Senate hearing concerning the water sources in the West drying up warned states in the Colorado River Basin to act sooner than later.

While railroads and worker unions are still in a 30-day cooling-off period, various shipper groups have asked President Biden to intervene sooner than later.

Rail and port workers are in the midst of contact negotiations, and failure to come to an agreement could be a disaster for West Coast ports and railroads.

After more than two years of contract negotiations and three weeks of mediation, rail unions rejected the railroads' current proposals.

Contract talks between the Pacific Maritime Association and the International Longshoreman Warehouse Union are taking place as current contract expiration looms.

Hard red winter wheat and soft red winter basis ended the old crop year without much fanfare.

Nonstop rain and overland flooding in parts of North Dakota and Minnesota are dampening the hopes of farmers wanting to get all their intended wheat, durum and other crops planted.