The US Army Corps of Engineers has resumed repairs on five of the eight locks and dams along the Illinois River.

Mike

Steenhoek is executive director of the US Soy Transportation Coalition.

“This is an example of agriculture, the barge industry and other stakeholders in coordination with the Army Corps of Engineers, the federal agency in charge of it, really getting something meaningful done,” he says

He

tells Brownfield the repairs began in early July and are scheduled to be

completed by the end of October before the main harvest surge.

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