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Truck rates for grain shipments within Illinois are published.
Truck and rail shipment origins of corn, as provided by this
body of data, have been mapped for three months. As can be seen from these
maps, most of the shipments originate in the upper third of the Stare.
However, within that region, few shipments arise along the Illinois River.
(1)
Although abundant quantities of corn are grown in that area, this pattern
should be expected. If some of that area's production is shipped to a
market, it should go by the river.
Additional information could be gathered to complete this
body of data. One df the most iMportant Illinois grain dealers gave a
list of the country elevators with which its river stations (down to
Peoria) were dealing during the crop-year 1966, the estimated quantities "
of grain these country elevators shipped to various destinations, and the
transportation modes they used. Rail and truck rates could be compiled
for these barge grain origins. Finally, some barge rates are published,
while it was .possible to estimate the barge transportation time on data
provided by the Corps of Army Engineers.
These last data about complete the information required to
apply our statistical model to the corn shipments from the upper part of
Illinois.
(1) 'Illinois Agricultural Statistics, Annual Summary, 1966', Illinois Coop'.
- Crop Report Service, Illinois, Department of Agriculture Bulletin, 66-1,
pp. 60-61.
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