The National Grain and Feed Association (NGFA), together with the USDA Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) and Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) hosted a webinar on Thursday, July 9, highlighting an in-depth look at the research and outcome of a study done by TTI on how congestion and wait times during the transportation of U.S. agriculture commodities can be costly, thus decreasing the producer’s revenue, increasing export prices and making U.S. products less competitive on the world market.
David Ellis, senior research scientist at TTI, explained during the webinar that, in order to estimate transportation costs, researchers calculated hourly transportation costs for truck, rail and barge traffic.