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OABA Signs Ag Transportation Working Group Letter

The Agricultural Transportation Working Group (ATWG), a coalition comprised of associations that represent farmers, ranchers, food and beverage manufacturers, processors, package suppliers, farm supply dealers and agricultural product marketers that support and sustain millions of American jobs, recently signed a letter strongly supporting the draft Freight Rail Shopping Fair Market Act (FRSFMA). The letter underscores the importance that the draft FRSFMA represents a critical update to the Staggers Rail Act of 1980 to reflect today’s freight transportation needs and includes provisions that would provide fair treatment for agricultural shippers and foster more competition in the current freight rail system.

Our associations take immense pride in fulfilling our role within the agricultural value chain to feed people around the world and provide an affordable supply of food and fiber for the American consumer here at home. However, unreliable, inadequate freight rail service harms our ability to deliver on this mission. The ATWG endorses the draft FRSFMA that includes several sensible and necessary policy measures to level the playing field for agricultural shippers currently operating in a non-competitive system. 

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