Every day, millions of sailors, truck drivers, longshoremen, warehouse workers and delivery drivers keep mountains of goods moving into stores and homes to meet consumers’ increasing expectations of convenience. But this complex movement of goods underpinning the global economy is far more vulnerable than many imagined. Photo illustration: Adele Morgan Congestion on America’s railroads is creating anxiety for farmers and agriculture companies, industry officials said, disrupting operations and potentially pushing up food prices . Delayed trains and scarce railcars are impeding crop shipments this spring, causing grain storage facilities to fill up, backing up fertilizer shipments and temporarily shutting down production at ethanol producing plants, company executives said. Railroad operators said they are working to fix the problems, but struggling to find enough workers. The railroad slowdown has grain companies looking for other ways to move farm commodities across the country , leading to higher transportation costs that company […]