With the port crippled, grain elevators and silos along the Mississippi are quickly filling up and prices are dropping.

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He got plastic trash bins and buried them in the ground, after hauling up grain and soybeans from a silo that was along the main Andrews-Murphy road.

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By 735, no less than 149, 000, 000kg of grain was being shipped along the canal each year.

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Work is slow along the 525-foot-wide route to Umm Qasr's grain elevator, where the Dredge Carolina chews up the mud with its 3, 000 horsepower cutter and suctions out the loosened silt.

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Local economies also suffer when villagers can't sell their grain or eat the crops planted along the river because the water is so polluted.

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Agricultural irrigation along with cattle feed lots located near the plants to take advantage of the co-product distillers grain add to local water demands.

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