By Ginger Rowsey
Delta Farm Press
Eight days. Maybe 10.
That’s how long it should take, give or take a day or two, to move barges from Morris, Ill., down the Illinois River to the Mississippi River and on to New Orleans, according to barge captain Eric Badeaux. With more than 40 years of experience navigating cargo on our nation’s waterways, Badeaux should know.
But this fall, the trip was taking considerably longer.