Low Mississippi River and reduced demand affecting basis

The Mississippi River has the potential to drop to severe lows at harvest for the fourth year in a row and an ag economist with University of Arkansas Extension says basis will be affected. Hunter Biram says it gets expensive to ship lighter loads of soybeans via barge down the river and that cost is […]

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