St. Louis sits below the last lock, so its quote is the cost of open river alone. Watching it against the Illinois quote separates a lock delay from a river-wide freight squeeze.
30 days to 4 Oct 2026 · 792.19% of tariff to 834.69% of tariff
This page shows the last 30 days. St. Louis barge rate has 163 readings in the warehouse, back to 15 Aug 2023. A plan opens the rest of it, with CSV export and the analyst.
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 southbound barge freight rate from St. Louis, as a percentage of the 1976 benchmark tariff. St. Louis sits below the last lock, so its quote strips out lock delay and isolates the cost of the open river.
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