Karl Plume

Position: Reporter

Articles

Slow PNW grain export loading prompts BNSF embargo November 24, 12:02am EST 

CHICAGO, Nov 23 (Reuters) - Burlington Northern Santa Fe <BNI.N> initiated a permit embargo for grain shipments to the U.S. Pacific Northwest effective Monday, Nov. 23, the railway said in a service advisory.  Full Article 

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Crop tour answers some questions, raises others

     More than 70 crop scouts began making their way home from Austin, Minnesota, on Friday after a week of 10-hour-long workdays counting and measuring corn and soybean yield potential through seven ...  Full Article | Comments [1] 

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Post-flood crop oddities in Illinois

    Crop scouts touring corn and soybean fields around the eastern Midwest this week have seen more than their fair share of the bizarre thanks to an abundance of moisture at planting and early in the ...  Full Article 

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Rainfall feast or famine in Ohio

    The old adage "rain makes grain" could use a revision this year... at least in Ohio. It should read "properly timed rain, distributed uniformly throughout the growing season, makes grain."     ...  Full Article | Comments [2]