The Missouri House Policy Chairman is pushing for $23.5 million to expand the New Madrid, Missouri port along the Mississippi River in the southeast corner of the state.

Don Rone tells Brownfield Missouri, and much of the Midwest, has an inefficient supply chain for ag goods and other products.

“We depend on three ports to bring our containers into our area,” he said. “That’s L.A., that’s Savanah, Georgia, and Charlston, South Carolina.”

Rone said his proposed port investment would provide a hub for products to move to and from New Orleans.

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