Max Armstrong shares the experience of moving grain on barges down the Mississippi. That trip showed him the limits of the river and the value of dredging the lower Mississippi. A new report offers insight on the value of the river is to American agriculture.

Farm Progress America is a daily look at key issues in agriculture. It is produced and presented by Max Armstrong, veteran farm broadcaster and host of This Week in Agribusiness.

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