The impact of climate change and drought on the Panama Canal have led to increases in freight rates, longer transit times and ballooning carbon emissions in agricultural trade.
Starting with the failed-to-deliver debacle of the 2023 Farm Bill to what a second Trump Administration might mean for ag, there is plenty at stake, Dave Dickey predicts.
Alternating extremes of heavy rainfall and drought are making it harder for the Army Corps of Engineers — which must by law maintain the Mississippi River for commerce, including the transportation of grain — to predict and plan a multi-million-dollar practice of constant dredging. In the upper reac
