Max Armstrong shares the role of railroads for agriculture, which has seen some significant challenges. Recently, the use of precision schedule railroading has taken the blame for some of the problems. Max reports that an association professor of logistics and operations management at Penn State Harrisburg shares the issues are more complex. Peter Swann says the pandemic, a surge in freight demand and the labor shortage combined to make a recipe for disruption all on their own.

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