Port Strike Threatens Missouri Ag Exports; Dockworker Strike Threatens Missouri Farm Exports.
Missouri agricultural producers ship billions of dollars in exports each year, business that could be slowed or reduced by the strike now idling ports along the East and Gulf coasts, just as Midwest farmers are harvesting their crops.
Farmers and ranchers sent more than $6 billion in goods - much of it soybeans, corn, feeds and cotton - to foreign markets in 2022, making Missouri the nation's ninth largest agricultural exporting state, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Much of it is shipped...
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