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Hoosier farmers: industry needs reliable locks and dams
Aug 29, 2017, 17:32 PM
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An Indiana farmer says the agriculture industry needs reliable locks and dams.
Herb Ringel farms corn and soybeans in Wabash County and serves as vice president of the Indiana Corn Growers Association.
“We export half our soybeans and we export a lot of our corn,” he says. “To get these to foreign countries we have to get them to a port. The easiest port for us to get to is down the Ohio River, to the Mississippi, and down to the Gulf.”
Audio: Herb Ringel, Indiana Corn Growers Association
Ringel tells Brownfield waterways “are the lifeline of moving products to the gulf” much more than trucks or rail.
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