Items Tagged with 'Agricultural Transportation Working Group'

Congressional Democrats are struggling to save a number of their colleagues from defeat in Tuesday’s mid-term elections, and former House Agriculture Committee Chairman Collin Peterson knows why.

The Surface Transportation Board has notified the major railroads that it expects them on Thursday to outline their plans for moving this fall’s grain harvest to market.

A coalition of farm and food industry groups is appealing to the Surface Transportation Board to take several steps that the organizations say could lower rail rates and ease shipping backlogs.