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Mississippi River Low-Water Barge Draft Restrictions

Daily gauge stage (ft) at Memphis, Vicksburg, Baton Rouge + published barge draft restriction depth (in.) from Coast Guard notices

Feed detail
Measures
Daily gauge stage (ft) at Memphis, Vicksburg, Baton Rouge + published barge draft restriction depth (in.) from Coast Guard notices
Source
USACE Lower Mississippi River gauges (rivergages.mvr.usace.army.mil) + USCG Marine Safety Information Bulletins
Access
http
Cadence
dailyupdates once a day
Thesis
Low water forces barges to load lighter, cutting grain/soybean export throughput from the Gulf, tightening barge freight rates and basis at river elevators ahead of USDA export data
Maps to
corn/soybean basis, barge freight futures, ADM/BG shares
Crowdedness
contested
Tier
tA
Ban-risk
ban:none
Where this stands

This is a catalogued data feed with a research idea attached, not a validated edge. Being listed here means it has a specific source and a one-sentence causal mechanism mapped to what it should move — it doesn’t mean it has cleared the five-stage validation gate (point-in-time hygiene, out-of-sample holdout, multiple-testing correction, and the portfolio-layer backstop). As of today, every score on this site is prior-only; zero signals in the catalog have been promoted to “measured” status. See the methodology page for the full validation process and current counts.

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