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With two rail worker unions having voted no to the tentative contract agreement, a rail strike could happen unless the unions and railroads agree on sticking points.

Everything that moves in a barge relies on the Mississippi River to keep commerce moving. Given the longstanding drought, that has become a tall order to fill.

A second rail union has voted down the tentative contract agreement presented in mid-September for approval by the 12 rail unions.

The Mississippi and Ohio Rivers are reaching record-breaking low levels, causing more headaches for everyone trying to get commodities moving up and down the river.

Besides the sandbars grounding barges and creating havoc for river terminals and farmers, saltwater is leaking into the Mississippi River at New Orleans.

Export Exchange is a biennial educational and trade forum for U.S. feed grains that will host a mix of nearly 500 international buyers, importers and domestic suppliers.

Hearings were held recently by the Surface Transportation Board to hear from interested parties to express the pros and cons of a merger between Canadian Pacific and Kansas City.

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 without Congress getting involved and...

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.