The recent bipartisan effort of U.S. lawmakers to fund the modernization of Lock 25 on the Mississippi River — some 45 miles north of St. Louis — was highlighted by Rob Elliott of the Illinois Corn Growers Association, during his presentation at the 2022 FS Ag Roundtable, hosted by Prairie Radio Communications.
Elliott singled out the importance and impact of this funding, and of the effort to make it happen, by several Illinois lawmakers, including U.S. Representative Cheri Bustos, and U.S. Senators Dick Durbin and Tammy Duckworth:
“A barge holds fifty-two thousand bushel — equal to 55 semi loads of grain, eighteen (18) thirty-five hundred (3,500) bushel rail cars, and a 15-barge tow … which is typically what’s out there on the river,” Elliott said March 18, during the first day of Prairie Radio Communications’ 2022 FS Ag Roundtable in Monmouth. “A new and improved lock will allow a 15-barge tow to pass through without having to be torn apart.”
To listen to the entire discussion, of either or both days of the 2022 FS Spring Ag Roundtable, click the News Podcasts tab at radiomonmouth.com
