A map where each dot is a rail yard, sized by its reported terminal dwell hours this week, and colored by an indicator of how unusually high or low dwell hours this week are for that yard.

This dataset includes historical volumes of US DDGS exports to destination countries by U.S. port districts and calendar year.

This table derives from the grain price spreads data. It includes the latest week of data, as well as averages and standard deviations of price spreads over the past year for each commodity, origin, and destination combination. An indicator is calculated as a ratio, where the numerator is the difference between this week's price spread and the associated average price spread, and the denominator is the associated standard deviation.

The data shows grain prices at select inland origin points and export destination ports and the price spread between them. More specifically, this dataset compares interior prices of corn in Illinois and Nebraska with the Gulf; Iowa and Gulf soybean prices; Kansas and Gulf hard red winter wheat; and North Dakota and Portland hard red spring wheat.

This line chart shows grain inspections broken out by commodity, filtered by default to only include data from the past three years. Use the filters to select different commodities, ports, destinations, and date ranges.

This page shows visualizations on biofuel movements by rail, barge and ocean as well as biofuel production and exports. It covers, ethanol, Distillers' Dried Grains With Solubles (DDGS) and biodiesel.

This dashboard provides an overview of key indicators in grain truck transportation. It shows visualizations on grain truck capacity, demand and rates for key regions in the US.

Bar chart showing a query from the rail carloadings dataset to show the most recent week of data by railroad. It includes average weekly carloads based on the month to provide a sense of the seasonal expected level. It also includes a calculation of one standard deviation above and below that average to provide a sense of variation around the expected level.

Grain shuttle trip data from the Surface Transportation Board's (STB) Rail Service Metrics. Each month, the railroads with dedicated grain shuttle service (BNSF, UP, and CP) provide information on the number of turns their grain shuttles make per month. Shuttle trips per month (TPM) should be reported on an average basis. For example, if a particular train set makes three origin to destination moves and another train set makes five origin to destination moves during the same calendar month, the railroad’s average TPM would be four.

The data applies only to those carriers operating grain unit trains in shuttle service. STB eliminated the requirement for carriers with (non-shuttle) dedicated grain trains to report trips per month "because the disparate data carriers could provide on that type of service would not provide the Board insight into service beyond the velocity data collected elsewhere." STB instructs, "in the first report of each month, railroads operating grain shuttles are required to report their average train trips per month for their system and key destination regions versus planned trips per month for their system and key regions for the previous month."

While STB collected related shuttle trip data as part of its initial collection in October 2014, those data included non-shuttle grain trains and, thus, are not directly comparable with the set beginning March 29, 2017.

The data shows the cost of shipping grain from the U.S. Gulf and Pacific Northwest to Japan in dollar per metric ton.