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North Dakota’s congressional delegation is pressing Canadian Pacific Railway to provide details of its backlog of grain shipments, saying farmers need detailed information with fall harvest fast approaching.

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.

Farmers adapt to life amid oil boom, big harvests

AGT Food and Ingredients Inc., the world’s largest exporter of peas and other pulses, wanted to make sure its products didn’t get stuck on the Canadian Prairie again -- so it bought a railroad.

J.D. Dulaney’s truck is transformed into a rolling shop on wheels

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.

The ripening corn and soybean fields stretch for miles in every direction from Dennis Wentworth’s farm in Downs, Illinois.

Adequate capacity during demand surges is key to export efficiencies