Nearly 40,000 acres are under water in hard-hit Dyer County, according to UT area specialist integrated pest management Gene Miles. Of that, 8,000 acres of crops are submerged -- 5,000 acres of corn, 2,000 acres of wheat and 1,000 acres of cotton.
"We had a pretty wet situation last year, and this is much worse," Miles said. "People are just waiting to start planting, hoping that these fronts will stop coming through."
We’ve had > 11 inches of rain in mid-Missouri in the past seven days. North of us, corn is in but the seed may rot because of chilly weather. Everything is wet, wet, wet.
Welcome to what many farmers in Eastern Arkansas faced this time last year. Many thousands of acres were still under water in that area.
But that kind of comes with the territory - some of the best farm land in our country is located in flood plains (that is a big part of WHY they are good farm land). But with that comes the danger of flooding.
I'm in New Mexico, I have had to haul in manure and almost daily I flood my land to make it grow.............you guys just want the flood to end.
We are praying for you.
Plant rice?
Stupid headline. Just where in the article did the author say what this “plant B” was, how to obtain seeds, how they were going to get it into the flooded soil, what the growing period was, how to harvest it, and if there was a market for it?
Has FEMA showed up there yet?
What about Obama?
No?
Perhaps THIS is the reason for his absense there and in the gulf states-
http://www.npr.org/news/specials/election2008/2008-election-map.html#/president?view=race08