soybeans

The world needs American energy and fuel — badly. And the barges carrying those goods can’t get through fast enough.

The soybean associations say helping offset construction costs of AG Procressing’s terminal expansion at the Port of Grays Harbor will help soybean exporters in the long run.

A year and a half after COVID emerged in Wuhan, China’s exporters, liners, shipyards and container factories are all booming.

Farmers in Texas and Louisiana have suffered at least $600 million in damage due to spring and winter storms.

Vessels get the green light after a portion of the Mississippi River near Memphis was closed to traffic for a few days. Inspectors found damage to the bridge above it.

Cargill’s announcement last week that it is making a nearly half-billion dollar investment in soybeans caught my attention because it suggests that one of the world’s largest food producers believes […]

Changes in export volumes for certain types of wheat may be reflected in changes in freight flows, according to reports from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Droughts and geopolitical tensions are driving up cotton, corn, and soybean prices and in turn impacting supply chain costs.

U.S. House lawmakers’ Climate Crisis Action Plan calls for 100% EV truck sales by 2040.

Nearly 1 billion bushels of corn and soybeans were wiped out. “It can take a chunk of truck loads away that would normally move.”

The global pandemic has strained relations between the U.S. and China. Will that cause the trade deal negotiated earlier this year to break down?

“The weather has not been kind to farmers this year. It’s been blow after blow after blow.” Downward pressure on prices hurting growers.

How tariffs played a role in Amazon deforestation.

Competition from other grain-producing countries weigh on U.S. grain exports – and on U.S. rail volumes for grain.

Chinese tariffs are impacting American agriculture. But declines in exports to other countries are also hurting American agriculture.

Late harvests, unplanted seeds add up to higher shipping volumes

Jim Blaze writes about the movement of grain by rail. This is a huge business for U.S. and Canadian railroads, and is also critical to the export market of the two countries.

Shipping’s ‘trade war’ equation is not measured in tons at sea, it’s measured in tons times miles at sea.

The final part of the FreightWaves series on the Panama Canal focuses on dry bulk transits. The two trends: US agribulk cargo to Asia is down, Colombian coal to the west coast of South America and Asia is up.

Tens of millions of dollars worth of corn and soybeans likely destroyed by major Midwest flooding. Not all farmers will be able to recuperate losses.

Countless acres of farms, ranch lands destroyed by recent floods in Iowa, Nebraska. Will impact food on our tables.

The Grain Transport Report, a weekly publication by the Agricultural Marketing Service (a division of the U.S. Department of Agriculture) released information showing that total export inspections for grain (corn, wheat and soybeans) declined 22 percent from the previous week.

Missing USDA data on wheat stockpiles has traders reacting cautiously.

The third week of the partial Federal government shutdown is impacting U.S. agriculture. Without full funding, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is not providing some real-time information, full financial support, or some critical services for farmers and ranchers.

Soybeans and corn are pretty big crops in Ohio. After a drought scare earlier this year, growers have been rebounding nicely.

Excess rain, record snowfall made North Dakota fields muddy last week. Crop damage not likely, but harvests will be delayed.

Hurricane Florence has intensified over the last 24 hours Riskpulse’s Chief Meteorologist, Jon Davis, and its Senior Weather Analyst Mark Russo explained in a webinar on Tuesday.

The core of the trade pact, which allows American companies to operate in Mexico and Canada without tariffs, remains the same.

Senator Bob Corker (R-TN) spoke to FreightWaves about his efforts to rein in what he called the Trump administration’s abuse of authority in imposing tariffs on the United States’ allies and trade partners.