The Illinois Corn Growers Association is seeing decades of advocacy efforts pay off this week after the US Army Corps of Engineers announced the addition of Lock and Dam 25 on the Mississippi River to their working plan with full funding of $732 million.
ICGA Managing Director Jim Tarmann tells Brownfield waterway infrastructure improvements on the upper Mississippi and Illinois Rivers have been a high priority of theirs for years.
“I don’t know that I have fully wrapped my head around today’s announcement.
