Missouri River review should focus on grain traffic.

Feedstuffs | November 18, 2002| | Copyright

Reduced wheat production, a highly competitive railroad system, high barge costs and rapidly growing local and domestic markets are having a dramatic effect on Missouri River barge traffic and raising the question of whether the public cost of providing navigation on the river exceeds the benefits to shippers.

Steve Swanson's grain farm in Page County, Iowa, is about 40 miles east of a barge-loading terminal on the Missouri River at Nebraska City, Neb. This 40-mile distance is within the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' (Corps) estimated 45-mile competitive range for ...

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