Weather and labor continue to challenge railways

IARN — One of the main metrics for railway service quality is unfilled grain car orders, the number of cars a shipper ordered but didn’t receive. Danny Munch, American Farm Bureau Federation Economist, said the data shows shippers are waiting a long time to get the grain cars they need.

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Railyards at AMD soybean facility in Des Moines, Iowa. (Photo by Dustin Hoffmann)

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