Recent flooding costs grain trader Archer Daniels Midland millions in losses
Severe weather and flooding that impacted much of the Midwest are expected to cause multinational agribusiness company Archer Daniels Midland to lose millions of dollars. The post Recent flooding costs...
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Rural communities are bracing for a looming recession caused by the coronavirus pandemic, expecting that it could devastate already shaky economies. As the virus shuts down schools, factories,...
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Farmers reeling after storm rips through millions of acres of crops
Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds announced a state of emergency in 20 counties on Tuesday, and the Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig called the damage “significant” and “severe.” The post Farmers...
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GRAPHIC: How Midwest farms use computers
Based on a U.S. Department of Agriculture annual survey collected in June, most farms throughout selected Midwest states use their phones to access the internet. The post GRAPHIC: How Midwest farms use...
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After The Deluge: Historic Floods Spell Trouble For Farmers, Rural...
VERDIGRE, Neb. – When locals look back on the March floods, they say the earth was bleeding water. Heavy rains pummeled still-frozen land, and the water had nowhere to go. Ice chunks the size of...
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‘It Follows Them Forever’: Interest In Storm Survivors’ Mental Health Increases
MOORE, Okla. — After a natural disaster, survivors can have psychological fallouts for weeks and months, or even lifetimes, research shows. Xavier Delgado was 10 in May 2013 when an EF5 tornado hit...
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News21 State Of Emergency Episode 4: A Rising Threat
Episode 4: A Rising Threat Flooding is reshaping life in rural America. Unprecedented events are catching farmers and small towns unprepared. Communities built around the water are now losing their...
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Weeks into vaccine rollout, some in Iowa worry about being left behind
Like many states, Iowa is now weeks into distributing the coronavirus vaccine to residents who are 65 or older. With vaccine demand still far outstripping supply, many Iowans are struggling to get an...
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Latest farm data a ‘wake-up call’ as Midwest farmers face ever steeper...
Zemua Baptista had dreamed his whole life of becoming a farmer. In late 2019, while still in college, he was able to get a contract and a beginning farmer loan to build eight chicken houses to raise...
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GRAPHIC: Midwest ranks 2nd for new and beginning farmers in the latest...
The number of farms in the U.S. has decreased recently — a situation federal officials termed a “wake-up call.” But more than a million farmers in the U.S. are now “new and beginning” farmers,...
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