A grain marketer says one of the downsides of a strong export market has been transportation. Chris DeLong with The DeLong Company says, “Railcar service has been horrible this year and probably for the last eight, nine months.”

The Wisconsin-based grain marketer says grain by rail out of Wisconsin and the Midwest has been challenging. “We had some shuttle orders (dedicated 100+ car trains) but we also ship a decent amount of singles, which is less than 100 cars, and we’ve been waiting on some cars for over three months, so the service has been awful.”

And, he says transportation problems are not limited to rail car availability.

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