By Dusty Sonnenberg, CCA, Field Leader, a project of the Ohio Soybean Council and Soybean Check-off

Today, mergers and acquisitions are very common in business. Increasingly, we are seeing them across various sectors in the agriculture industry. Transportation has not been immune to this trend, particularly in the railroad industry. The proposed merger between Union Pacific Railroad (UP) and Norfolk Southern Railway (NS) has farmers and industry observers asking questions and expressing concern about what this may mean to competition and transportation pricing for soybeans.

On November 14, shareholders of both Union Pacific (UP) and Norfolk Southern (NS) approved their proposed merger. Other railroads, such as Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNSF Railway) and Canadian Pacific and Kansas Ci

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