Spring floods still drowning Midwest farms, grain carloads

Oct 23, 2019 at 10:24 AM CST
Even though it’s October, reminders of the devastating March floods in the western Corn Belt haven’t faded. Roads are still closed, farms drowned, and the volume of grain carloads leaving the region is still trying to play catch up. The rainy spring destroyed billions of dollars of corn and soybean fields that were already planted and continues to harm this year’s harvest. Many Midwestern farmers had to plant later in the spring due to the flooding, and parts of the region were slammed by unusually heavy snow early this fall, leading to possible crop losses in central and eastern portions of North Dakota.

Oct 23, 2019 at 10:24 AM CST

Even though it’s October, reminders of the devastating March floods in the western Corn Belt haven’t faded. Roads are still closed, farms drowned, and the volume of grain carloads leaving the region is still trying to play catch up. The rainy spring destroyed billions of dollars of corn and soybean fields that were already planted and continues to harm this year’s harvest. Many Midwestern farmers had to plant later in the spring due to the flooding, and parts of the region were slammed by unusually heavy snow early this fall, leading to possible crop losses in central and eastern portions of North Dakota.