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The new U.S. Rural Infrastructure Opportunity Fund is designed to connect rural projects in need of funding with interested investors and lenders.

“Rural infrastructure projects have built-in advantages that should be attractive to financiers. For starters, investment dollars go farther,” McGraw Hill Financial CEO Douglas L. Peterson wrote in an opinion piece for CNBC this week.

Rail congestion and large bounties of crops have some worried about grain storage space as South Dakota’s harvest gets underway.

Upper Mississippi’s lock-and-dam decision dilemma.

The adoption of federal legislation known as MAP-21 exempts the equipment and its operators from some Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations.

The agreement provides certain exemptions for farmers in one state who cross into the other while delivering agricultural goods.

The cumulative effects of sediment deposits from last year’s flood, coupled with receding waters this summer, are visible from space.

Will a balance of power temper success?

A recent study shows that farmers, more than any other segment of agriculture, are responsible for paying the transportation costs from the farm to the dinner plate.

A scale-tipping harvest, a lack of bin space from last year and a shortage of rail cars have some farmers, and some elevators, pouring wheat on the ground because there’s no place to put it.