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Feed Grains Database: Yearbook Tables

Note. Data are reported on a marketing-year basis: corn and sorghum, September-August; barley and oats, June-May; hay, May-April; and processed feed products, October-September.

Missing values indicate unreported values, discontinued series, or not yet released data.

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Table 28--Rail rates and grain shipments
Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Annual
Producer price index, line-haul railroads, all products (Dec 1984=100)
1997	111.40	111.50	111.60	111.60	111.70	112.20	112.40	112.40	112.50	112.50	112.60	112.60	112.10
1998	113.50	113.50	113.30	113.40	113.50	113.40	113.50	113.50	113.50	113.40	113.20	113.20	113.40
1999	112.60	112.70	112.60	112.70	113.20	113.10	113.10	113.10	113.30	113.30	113.30	113.30	113.00
2000	113.90	113.90	114.00	113.90	114.10	114.40	114.50	114.60	114.70	115.10	115.40	115.30	114.50
2001	115.90	115.80	116.00	115.70	115.80	116.00	116.10	116.30	117.80	118.00	117.90	118.00	116.60
2002	118.50	118.60	118.60	118.60	118.80	118.90	119.10	118.90	119.00	119.20	119.50	119.50	118.90
2003	119.70	119.90	120.90	121.70	121.20	121.80	121.80	121.70	121.90	122.00	122.10	122.20	121.40
2004	123.20	123.40	124.40	124.70	125.30	125.60	126.40	126.60	128.00	128.90	129.90	131.20	126.50
2005	131.90	132.00	133.70	135.00	138.70	139.20	139.30	140.80	142.50	145.70	148.40	148.40	139.60
2006	147.20	146.30	148.30	148.60	150.50	153.10	154.90	155.10	155.60	155.50	152.50	151.20	151.60
2007	151.80	152.50	151.20	152.50	154.00	157.30	157.20	159.10	160.80	161.40	163.40	165.10	157.20
2008	169.60	169.10	169.60	170.60	174.50	178.50	180.30	182.00
Rail car loadings (1,000 rail cars) 1/
1997	24.62	26.84	24.92	22.71	20.39	21.29	21.93	22.93	20.64	25.52	23.63	22.42	21.37
1998	25.05	24.80	21.91	20.64	20.47	20.89	21.60	22.74	22.95	26.66	25.09	23.51	21.25
1999	23.50	23.36	21.84	21.13	20.85	20.99	23.44	25.09	24.55	26.81	23.92	20.35	21.22
2000	23.39	23.65	22.83	20.92	20.21	20.10	20.18	21.98	22.85	24.95	21.43	19.31	20.14
2001	23.13	23.00	23.15	20.66	18.26	20.13	20.21	20.57	21.71	26.05	23.41	20.58	20.07
2002	22.66	21.82	20.76	19.58	18.45	20.00	20.92	20.05	19.59	23.17	23.13	20.34	20.85
2003	21.97	21.02	20.70	19.31	17.99	18.71	20.72	21.46	22.44	24.88	23.84	22.54	21.23
2004	24.21	22.47	23.12	21.99	21.60	20.62	19.61	19.84	21.05	23.29	22.62	20.72	21.69
2005	22.87	23.21	23.29	22.07	21.48	19.83	20.39	21.51	21.37	22.49	21.82	20.66	23.32
2006	23.95	22.73	22.31	22.60	21.30	22.26	21.96	22.48	22.45	24.07	22.10	22.81	22.61
2007	22.16	20.46	21.65	20.76	19.14	20.96	22.29	23.78	24.00	27.50	25.93	22.84	22.71
2008	25.38	25.47	24.66	25.03	22.38	22.01	23.89	24.56
Barge shipments (million tons) 2/
1997	1.57	1.90	3.20	1.80	3.40	4.50	3.50	2.90	2.20	0.00	0.90	0.00	2.20
1998	2.00	1.70	2.70	2.30	3.30	3.30	3.60	3.70	1.40	3.30	4.60	3.50	3.00
1999	1.30	2.70	2.80	3.70	4.10	4.40	4.30	3.80	2.70	3.80	4.20	3.60	3.50
2000	2.31	1.94	3.15	3.61	3.45	3.33	4.26	3.26	2.65	3.11	3.77	2.16	3.10
2001	1.06	1.87	2.57	2.54	2.07	4.23	4.32	3.89	2.43	2.56	3.90	3.74	2.90
2002	1.23	2.00	2.86	3.56	3.39	4.40	4.36	3.50	2.21	3.66	4.94	3.57	3.30
2003	2.18	1.40	2.72	3.19	2.99	3.54	3.78	2.28	1.48	2.60	3.36	3.31	2.70
2004	1.66	0.96	1.68	2.35	2.79	2.81	2.69	2.31	0.87	2.05	2.73	2.75	2.10
2005	1.41	0.97	1.29	2.20	2.94	2.58	1.88	2.69	1.09	1.43	2.40	2.32	1.90
1/ Simple average of weekly data. 2/ Shipments on Illinois and Mississippi waterways. Sources: U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Producer Price Index; Association of American Railroads, Weekly Traffic of Major U.S. Railroads; and U.S. Corps of Engineers, Monthly Navigation Commodities and Tonnage.

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Updated date: September 29, 2008