River barges are an efficient way to move crops — 15 barges can hold about as much grain as 1,000 semi-trucks. But low river ...

Mayors from 10 states along the Mississippi River convened in Louisiana’s capital this week to announce a cooperative ...

Drought across the central US is shrinking the Mississippi River, sending barge rates soaring and threatening to roil ...

Climatologists say it could be part of a larger trend. For the third year in a row, extreme drought conditions in the Midwest ...

A map shared on X, TikTok, Facebook and Threads, among other platforms, in August 2024 claimed to show the Mississippi River ...

A map of the Mississippi River basin and the river’s major tributaries. (Annie Ropeik, Ag & Water Desk/Data via U.S.

Brad Kooima of Kooima Kooima Varilek says the cash cattle market put in a low last week and futures were sharply higher so ...

Drought across the central U.S. is shrinking the Mississippi River, sending barge rates soaring and threatening to roil ...

Even the Mighty Mississippi River is not immune as water levels have dropped significantly due to the drought, disrupting ...

Drought across the central U.S. is shrinking the Mississippi River, sending barge rates soaring and threatening to roil ...

Construction has begun on a saltwater sill near Myrtle Grove to help mitigate the effects of saltwater intrusion up the ...

Barges plying the shrinking lower Mississippi River have to reduce their draft, meaning operators will have to cut the amount ...