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Weekly On-Highway Diesel Fuel Prices
internal.agtransport.usda.gov | Last Updated 2019-12-03T19:00:27.000ZWeekly on-highway diesel prices (dollars per gallon) from the Department of Energy's Energy Information Administration. This data includes the average diesel fuel price for the U.S. and five Petroleum Administration for Defense Districts (PADDs) (including PADD subcomponents). There are ten variables in total: "U.S."; "East Coast" (PADD1), broken out further by "New England" (PADD1A), "Central Atlantic" (PADD1B), and "Lower Atlantic" (PADD1C); "Midwest" (PADD2); "Gulf Coast" (PADD3); "Rocky Mountain" (PADD4); and "West Coast" (PADD5), broken out further by "West Coast excluding California" and "California." See link below for the states included in each region.
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Upbound and Downbound Loaded and Empty Barge Movements (Count)
internal.agtransport.usda.gov | Last Updated 2019-12-05T20:59:16.000ZThis dataset provides weekly information on the number, location, direction, and type of barges transiting the following three major points: (1) the last lock on the Mississippi River, Mississippi Locks 27 (called "Miss Locks 27" in the dataset); (2) the last lock on the Ohio River, Olmsted Locks and Dam (called "Ohio Olmstead" in the dataset); and (3) the last lock on the Arkansas River, Arkansas River Lock and Dam 1 (called "Ark Lock 1" in the dataset). (Ohio Olmsted locks replaced Ohio Locks 52 beginning in November 2018.) The data offers insight on barge movements over time. One variable is "direction", which consists of upbound ("Up") and downbound ("Down"). It also offers insight on the "type" of traffic (e.g., empty barges, loaded barges, grain barges, and non-grain barges). More specifically, upbound data includes the number of empty barges and the number of loaded (any commodity) barges transiting the locking system. Downbound data includes the number of empty barges, the number of grain barges (loaded), and the number of non-grain (loaded) barges. That is, grain and non-grain sum to total loaded for downbound traffic. will Due to data availability, prior to 10/15/2000, downbound data includes just empty and loaded counts. A similar dataset, "Downbound Barge Grain Movements (Tons)," contains information on the tonnage (and commodity) of grain moving by barge down the locking system: https://agtransport.usda.gov/d/n4pw-9ygw/. Data is collected weekly from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Lock Performance Monitoring System.
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Recent Grain Barge Movements by Lock
internal.agtransport.usda.gov | Last Updated 2019-12-05T20:59:19.000ZThis line chart shows weekly grain barge tonnages by lock over the past few years. Use the filters to narrow down to specific grains, locks, or date ranges.
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Refrigerated Truck Volumes - Top 20 districts - Rolling 30 day Window
internal.agtransport.usda.gov | Last Updated 2019-12-05T21:10:40.000ZBar chart showing the top 20 refrigerated truck volume districts over the past 30 days. District totals are broken down by commodity, and it includes filters for date and origin.
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Year-to-Date Grain Inspections, Compared to Last Year
internal.agtransport.usda.gov | Last Updated 2019-12-05T21:02:58.000ZQuery from the Grain Inspections dataset, including only year-to-date records of grain and soybeans inspected by export region and country of destination from the current and previous year.
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Grain Shuttle Train Turns
internal.agtransport.usda.gov | Last Updated 2019-12-05T16:00:23.000ZGrain shuttle trip data from the Surface Transportation Board's (STB) Rail Service Metrics. Each month, the railroads with dedicated grain shuttle service (BNSF, UP, and CP) provide information on the number of turns their grain shuttles make per month. Shuttle trips per month (TPM) should be reported on an average basis. For example, if a particular train set makes three origin to destination moves and another train set makes five origin to destination moves during the same calendar month, the railroad’s average TPM would be four. The data applies only to those carriers operating grain unit trains in shuttle service. STB eliminated the requirement for carriers with (non-shuttle) dedicated grain trains to report trips per month "because the disparate data carriers could provide on that type of service would not provide the Board insight into service beyond the velocity data collected elsewhere." STB instructs, "in the first report of each month, railroads operating grain shuttles are required to report their average train trips per month for their system and key destination regions versus planned trips per month for their system and key regions for the previous month." While STB collected related shuttle trip data as part of its initial collection in October 2014, those data included non-shuttle grain trains and, thus, are not directly comparable with the set beginning March 29, 2017.
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Rail Terminal Dwell Times
internal.agtransport.usda.gov | Last Updated 2019-12-05T16:00:28.000ZWeekly terminal dwell time data from the Surface Transportation Board’s (STB) Rail Service Metrics. The STB began collecting service metrics from railroads in October 2014. As part of their submission to the STB, railroads provide average terminal dwell time, measured in hours, excluding cars on runthrough trains (i.e., cars that arrive at, and depart from, a terminal on the same through train) for the carrier’s system and its 10 largest terminals in terms of railcars processed. (Terminal dwell is the average time a car resides at a specified terminal location expressed in hours.)
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Rail Carloadings
internal.agtransport.usda.gov | Last Updated 2019-12-05T16:00:33.000ZWeekly carloads from the Surface Transportation Board’s (STB) Rail Service Metrics. Each week, the seven Class I railroads submit originated and received carloads by 23 major commodity groups, such as grain, grain mill, primary forest products, chemicals, coal, containers, trailers, etc. While the STB began collecting some service metrics from railroads (e.g., trains speeds, origin dwell, and terminal dwell) in October 2014, it did not start collecting carload data until March 2017 through a new rulemaking.
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Refrigerated Truck Rates and Availability
internal.agtransport.usda.gov | Last Updated 2019-12-05T23:48:49.000ZData from AMS Market News Specialty Crops Program, including weekly refrigerated truck rates and availability by origin, destination, and commodity. The Transportation Services Division assigns a broader region to the origins in order to join to refrigerated truck rate and availability data.
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Secondary Railcar Auction Market Bids, Latest Week of Data and Historical Averages
internal.agtransport.usda.gov | Last Updated 2019-12-05T21:02:53.000ZThis view is the result of multiple queries from the Secondary Auction Market Bids dataset to get the latest week of data and some historical averages and standard deviations for this month of the year.