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To: Grainne who wrote (42160)	6/27/1999 7:03:00 PM
From: Ish	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

<<Do you have statistics on that, Ish? Particularly on the water part. What water? Where? >> Damn, ma'am, you got me there. No statistics. It's just that I live in the Midwest and have a farm. Oh and a boat too so I watch the traffic on the river. Most grain elevators are located on or near a rail line. Right now the rail roads are moving grain cars into holding areas for the September harvest. Same as the barges are being moved to ports on the Illinois River. As for what rivers, I can't name them all but the Illinois, Missouri, Ohio and Mississippi carry grain weighed in metric tons. Big barges. Then you have Wisconsin, Michigan and Minnesota ( third largest corn producer) plus some of Indiana and Ohio shipping out through the Great Lakes and the St.Lawrance Seaway. Take a drive through the Dakotas, Nebraska and Kansas and all the big elevators are on rail lines. Look at the Mississippi at Memphis, barges hauling 100s of millions of tons of grain.