Officials say flooding in Mississippi could have caused more than US$250 million (UK£152.252 million) in damages to agriculture. Laura Hipp, a spokeswoman for Governor, Haley Barbour, stressed that the figure was only an estimate because thousands of acres are still flooded and that makes it hard to come up with solid information. She said officials estimate that 450,000 acres of cropland could have been destroyed.
Hipp said there's no official estimate yet for damages to homes and other structures. Some of the fields that flooded were winter wheat, which was heartbreaking for farmers to lose because it was just days or weeks from being ready to harvest. The flood also swamped other crops like corn, and flooded catfish farms. Read more ...
This blog is written by Martin Little, The Global Miller, published and supported by the GFMT Magazine and the International Milling Directory from Perendale Publishers
Hipp said there's no official estimate yet for damages to homes and other structures. Some of the fields that flooded were winter wheat, which was heartbreaking for farmers to lose because it was just days or weeks from being ready to harvest. The flood also swamped other crops like corn, and flooded catfish farms. Read more ...
This blog is written by Martin Little, The Global Miller, published and supported by the GFMT Magazine and the International Milling Directory from Perendale Publishers
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