Transportation consultant Walter Kemmsies is skeptical the barge industry will be able to move the huge corn and soybean crops being harvested this fall, said Farm Futures, based on an interview at a grain industry meeting in New Orleans. It quotes Kemmsies as saying, “I don’t think the river is going to take it.” The system is operating at full capacity at present, he said and there has been few improvements to the lock and dam network on the Mississippi River, the marine artery for moving grain from the Midwest and upper Plains to export elevators at New Orleans. Farmers have complained for months about backlogs on rail shipments of grain.