Agriculture losses are mounting across the Midwest in the wake of historic floods.
Floodwaters cover agricultural fields in Sidney, Iowa, on Friday. By Annie Gowen and Annie Gowen National correspondent Email Bio Follow Frances Stead Sellers Frances Stead Sellers Senior writer covering national politics Email Bio Follow March 23 at 7:00 AM SIDNEY, Iowa — His farm is still cut off by floodwaters, so Iowa soybean farmer Pat Sheldon had to view the damage from the air.
In Nebraska, Gov. Pete Ricketts has called the flooding “the most widespread destruction we have ever seen in our state’s history.” Iowa has more than 100,000 acres of farmland still underwater. Officials from both states say the damage estimates are more than $1 billion and counting. “A lot of farmers have not been selling, hoping for better prices and some kind of trade agreement,” Olson said.The Missouri River is continuing its destructive course south into Missouri where Gov. Mike Parson declared a state of emergency, as governors have already done in Iowa, Wisconsin and hard-hit Nebraska.
Farmer Bob Nenneman checks out flooding from the Missouri River. In Sioux Falls, S.D., the Big Sioux River is expected to have two crests — one late Monday and another on Friday. The Mississippi will likely peak later in the week in St. Paul, Minn. Ten miles to the south, the city of Cottage Grove declared an emergency in anticipation of flooding from the river, which is expected to peak there on March 30.
There are some 40,000 soybean farmers in Iowa. In the past several years, 1 in 3 rows of soybeans have been sent to China, meaning farmers were heavily impacted after China virtually stopped buying American soybeans last year, according to the Iowa Soybean Association. Floodwaters surround corn sitting under a collapsed grain bin outside Council Bluffs, Iowa, on Saturday. The farmers said they were more concerned with the way the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers was handling the management of the river. They said they received little warning from the Corps before levees breached and their land was flooded, and many did not have time to move their grain to safety.
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