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The Iowa Corn Growers Association (ICGA) is applauding President Trump’s commitment to modernizing America’s transportation system.

Wayne Humphreys of Columbus Junction, Iowa, who chairs ICGA’s corn export and grain trade committee, says upkeep of existing locks and dams on the Mississippi River system is essential to the ag industry.

“Those locks and dams have what is called a ‘single point of failure’,” Humphreys says. “If one lock somehow loses hydraulic or loses a gate or has a wall collapse, the entire system comes to a halt.”

And Humphreys says there is no backup system.

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