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Supply chains across Midwest facing significant constraints

Farmers faced with high fuel and fertilizer costs this growing season could at least look for consolation in relatively high commodity prices. However, even that right spot may be slipping

Farmers faced with high fuel and fertilizer costs this growing season could at least look for consolation in relatively high commodity prices. However, even that bright spot may be slipping away as low water on the Mississippi River slows shipping and keeps grain backing up at local elevators.

With no rain relief in sight, historic low water on the inland river system continues to block channels and restrict tow sizes.

The Mississippi River isn’t out of the woods as falling water levels along its major tributaries threaten to deepen a crisis on the U.S.’s main artery for moving vital products.

Bloomberg's Brian K Sullivan, Joe Deaux, and Michael Hirtzer reported earlier this week that, "The Mississippi River isn’t out of the woods as falling water levels along its major tributaries threaten to deepen a crisis on the US’s main artery for moving vital products."

With major barge jams farther south along the Mississippi, the nations premier inland waterway for agriculture exports has proven costlier for grain shippers and farmers farther north.

The Mississippi River isnt out of the woods as falling water levels along its major tributaries threaten to deepen a crisis on the United States main artery for moving vital products.

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 tributaries threaten to deepen a...