With another saltie sitting outside the Duluth harbor waiting to load grain this week, federal pressure continues on ramping up grain shipments by rail across the Midwest. Minnesota Sen. Al Franken ...

In another sign of how well agribusiness has performed recently, CHS Inc. of St. Paul announced Tuesday it's plowing some of its big profits into upgrading an already big grain elevator in Lakota, N.D ...

"With a 110-car train, they just want to pull in, load up and pull out," Olson says. "You need a lot of ground" for the storage tanks. Olson works as he talks, weighing full semis on the scale, ...