flood damage

• By Jarrod Hardke • “At some point it can’t get any wetter, it can only get deeper.”  The south half of Arkansas is feeling that statement this week. Torrential rains struck areas of east-central and southeast Arkansas with places...

• By Ryan McGeeney • Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson declared a state of emergency Thursday in response to the record rainfall and flooding in the southeastern area of the state. The declaration allows him to direct $100,000 from the Governor’s Disaster...

The stage is set for more spring flooding in Missouri, said University of Missouri Extension climatologist Pat Guinan. “A lot will depend on the weather patterns that set up over the region in the next few weeks,” he said. Missouri farmers,...

The one silver lining for the 2019 rice season in Louisiana was that we had a dry September, and many growers were able to work the ground and prepare for the 2020 season. It was a way to close...

• By Bruce Schultz • Hurricane Barry had a minimal effect on Louisiana croplands, but its aftermath left a narrow strip of flooding rain that will cause damage. Some soybeans were flooded, and rice was submerged in areas that received heavy...

U.S.  Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue has declared 23 counties in Arkansas as declared disaster areas, making growers and other property owners in those counties eligible for emergency loans through the Farm Service Agency. The declaration was issued May 24 by Perdue and announced May...

Many Louisiana rice and soybean producers were looking at decent crops before torrential rains in August flooded many fields and created mud bogs in others. Kurt Guidry, an agricultural economist with Louisiana State University's AgCenter, puts initial flood losses to...