Posted on 06/16/2021 2:38:22 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
The Mississippi Department of Agriculture said farmers are experiencing a total loss for some crops after the flooding conditions swept farmlands. This loss will affect the economy but hopefully not Mississippi’s food production.
“I’ve never seen anything like it,” Agriculture Commissioner Andy Gipson said. “It was just torrential. It looked like a tropical storm.”
Gipson went to north Mississippi this week to observe the impacted farmlands.
“They look like lakes where there was cotton and soybeans. And there are even cornfields that are totally underwater,” he said.
Boliver County is one of the hardest-hit areas and those farmers are said to be losing corn, cotton and maybe more. Commissioner Gipson said they could possibly salvage their soybean crops if they choose to replant but only if the fields dry out.
He said he hasn’t seen severity like this as long as he’s been with the department.
“This is really an unprecedented event as far north as it is in north Mississippi,” Gipson said. “We are used to seeing the flooding in south Delta and the Yazoo backwater and other parts of the state, but this event has dropped about 20 inches of rain in north Mississippi and the north Delta.”
Unfortunately, Gipson said there is not much the state can do to fix the problem.
“The devastation of a flood like this and an unexpected timeframe. Nobody could prepare for this. There’s nothing you could do to stop it,” Gipson said.
This loss will affect the economy of the region, but hopefully not Mississippi’s food production.
And California will be losing food crops due to drought. Somebody is not happy! Just sayin’.
The flooding left the trees alone ?
Ping
And California will be losing food crops due to drought. Somebody is not happy! Just sayin’.
..Hopefully that is in the works in my lifetime. Thousands of drones tirelessly carrying a million gallons each from flooded areas to drought areas 24/7/52. Maybe we could build a highway network for drones only, something like how the railroad is used.
I once saw it rain so hard in Columbus MS that we had to pull the car over and wait.
Zero visibility.
…and more flooding rain is coming. It’s been an unusually cool, wet spring.
That’s a regular occurrence in the South.
It was that way here in Northern Alabama last week. Until yesterday, it rained here for a week. I hate not being able to see the road because of rain.
And, here comes more rain this weekend because of the tropical storm.
Oh boy……
That’s a LOT of water.
I guess all that rice in Arkansas is loving the rain if they got it too.
The Mississippi Delta has tremendously rich soil, and actually experienced worse conditions during the 1927 Flood.
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