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NPR: 'Completely Catastrophic': Flooding And Tariffs Causing Chaos For Farmers
June 3, 20195:00 AM ET
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Farmers up and down the Arkansas River, the Missouri and the Mississippi are experiencing an unusual unprecedented, some would say combination of circumstances this year that are putting many in a difficult situation.
Weeks and weeks of rain across the Midwest and the Great Plains have kept many farmers from planting crops. Surging rivers have broken levees, flooded fields and brought barge traffic to a halt on some of the nation's biggest waterways.
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On top of that, farmers are dealing with the effects of President Trump's ongoing trade dispute with China and the prospects of a new one with Mexico.
"If you just had one individual [issue], farmers would take a loss but it probably wouldn't be all that bad," says Jeremy Ross, a soybean agronomist with the University of Arkansas' Division of Agriculture. "But then you start adding all these together, and it just starts snowballing, and it just becomes this big huge problem."
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https://www.npr.org/2019/06/03/729191928/u-s-farmers-hit-with-bad-weather-and-trade-disputes?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=news
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NPR: 'Completely Catastrophic': Flooding And Tariffs Causing Chaos For Farmers (Original Post)
inanna
Jun 2019
OP
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)1. Wow,a so called News and Info Media
source decided that it was time to do a Human Interest Blurb. Hey,the water is still up to the roads in Nebraska and Iowa as well as South Dakota and western Minnesota.
And with FEMA gutted,good luck with that idea.
hatrack
(59,592 posts)2. Yes, this just in - US 65 closed at the Missouri River, I-29 shut down north of St. Joe . . .
I-680 (connecting Omaha and Council Bluffs) across the Missouri shut down . . . . but the President tweeted something stupid! Ask Cokie!!
dreamland
(964 posts)3. What has Number one pee brain say to this?
Fake news.