Arkansas farmers didn't plant on 1.3 million acres this year

Aug 20, 2019 at 10:32 AM CST
This spring's heavy rainfall and flooding left 1.3 million acres (0.526 million hectares) of land unplanted in Arkansas. Lawrence County farmers saw nearly 74,000 idled acres (29,947 million hectares), the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reported. Jerry Morgan is one of the county's farmers who said his farm had more than 500 acres (202 hectares) of corn, rice and soybeans that he couldn't plant this year. "This is the hardest year, mentally and physically, that we've ever had," Morgan said. "Mentally, because we were trying to decide what to replant, if anything, and the government wasn't telling us what it was going to do."

Aug 20, 2019 at 10:32 AM CST

This spring's heavy rainfall and flooding left 1.3 million acres (0.526 million hectares) of land unplanted in Arkansas. Lawrence County farmers saw nearly 74,000 idled acres (29,947 million hectares), the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reported. Jerry Morgan is one of the county's farmers who said his farm had more than 500 acres (202 hectares) of corn, rice and soybeans that he couldn't plant this year. "This is the hardest year, mentally and physically, that we've ever had," Morgan said. "Mentally, because we were trying to decide what to replant, if anything, and the government wasn't telling us what it was going to do."