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Grain barges through Olmsted

The Ohio valley's contribution to Gulf loadings. It moves independently of the Mississippi, so a divergence between the two says which watershed is short of water.

Latest
107.00 barges
As of
19 Sept 2026
Standard deviations
-0.15
Percentile
50th percentile

30 days to 4 Oct 2026 · 78.00 barges to 107.00 barges

The archive behind this

This page shows the last 30 days. Grain barges through Olmsted has 163 readings in the warehouse, back to 12 Aug 2023. A plan opens the rest of it, with CSV export and the analyst.

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Source

U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Marketing Service

Source: USDA Agricultural Marketing Service, Agricultural Transportation Open Data Platform, agtransport.usda.gov. Barge movement counts collected by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

Weekly count of loaded grain barges passing southbound through Olmsted Locks and Dam, the last lock on the Ohio. The Ohio valley's contribution to Gulf export loadings arrives through here.

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