Posted on 05/20/2010 7:04:16 AM PDT by GailA
While May's flood waters are receding into memory for most Memphians, they remain a stark reality for many West Tennessee farmers.
These growers still have fields under water or too wet to plant, planted acres wiped clean of seed, fertilizer and topsoil, and still-broken equipment and supply lines on their property.
Many are taking a wait-and-see approach to what they will plant as their prior expectations were washed away by what some call a once-in-a-lifetime weather event.
A cotton plant that wasn't washed away pokes out of debris left by flooding in one of Moody's fields. When the water recedes, he says he'll plant soybeans. Water surrounds part of an irrigation system in one of Jimmy Moody's cotton fields in Dyer County. Moody, whose family has been farming land in Dyer since the 1920s, said that his planted cotton crop will likely yield one-third of what was predicted before the storm. "This is by far the most devastating flooding we've ever seen here," said Robert Hayes, director of the University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture's West Tennessee Research and Education Center.
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That is the libtards plan. Control the food supply and you control the people.
Reporters aren’t the smartest people in the world. Most crops go in around here in May. If they can get into the fields they might get in a short season soy bean crop. But all depends on the fields drying out enough that the tractors don’t sink in the muddy fields.
There is 1 lone FEMA bus in Millington at the Crisis Center. Navy base is a different story Serv Pro is there in large numbers.
I was talking about the field along Singleton that lead into the Navy base. I live in Scenic Hills in Raleigh.
Did you see the news where the lines for food stamps were out of control in Memphis with people looking to replace their food when their power went out?
Where are the Grizzlies, the Memphis Musicians, to do telethons, like the Nashville Country Stars and Titans did. Our governor..oh, he’s in China while half his state looks like the aftermath of Katrina. Ophelia Ford hasn’t been in Millington, which she represents, Shelby Co. Mayor John Ford hasn’t set foot in Millington. Nor has US Rep John Tanner. GOP Senators Corker and Alexander showed up TWO WEEKS after the flood.
FEMA was more timely this time around. Though I’ve not seen them actually do anything but take claims reports.
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