(Source: Agriculture.com, March 12, 2015)
Upper Midwest farmers lost about $570 million on sales of soybeans, wheat, and corn last year because of painful rail delays that began with the bumper 2013 harvest and persisted into fall 2014. The snarl-up could lead to closer federal monitoring of railroads and impinge on selection of a successor to investor Warren Buffett, the Wizard of Omaha.
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