What is the importance of grain? Any food made from wheat, rice, oats, corn or barley is a grain product. Breads, pasta, breakfast cereals, grits and tortillas are examples of grain products. And there are hundreds more…
The combination of a global virus pandemic and an illogical energy price war will impact grain movements.
In a worst case scenario, there will be geographic pockets of decline in the buying and selling of grain. This might result in a two- to three-month drop of up to one-third in freight train grain movements.