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A Reliable Waterway System Is Important to Agriculture  
A Reliable Waterway System Is Important to Agriculture describes the importance of marine transportation to fiscal 2010 agricultural exports, forecast at $97 billion. Agriculture will provide a trade balance of $15 billion, with imports forecast at $82 billion. Critical farm inputs such as fertilizer, feed, and fuel move on the waterway system as well.

 

 

 
For more information, please contact:
Brian McGregor
Supervisory Agricultural Marketing Specialist
brian.mcgregor@ams.usda.gov
(202) 694-2509

 

 
 
See Also
 
  USDA ERS/FAS: Outlook for U.S. Agricultural Trade  
 
  USDA World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (PDF)  
 
  USDA ERS: Foreign Agricultural Trade of the United States  
 
  USACE OMNI RPT 06 Waterway Traffic Report  
 
  U.S. Grain and Soybean Exports to Mexico: A Modal Share Transportation Analysis (PDF)  
 
  Trends in Freight Railroad Rates and Competition (GAO-07-292SP), an E-supplement to GAO-07-2  
 
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