Insights and Stories on Flooding

Smithfield sees pork operations back to normal Monday

Oct. 17, 2016 at 3:17 am CDT

Wilmington, N.C. | Reuters — Smithfield Foods expects to resume full production on Monday at its North Carolina meat operations, including the world’s largest pork plant, more than a week after Hurricane Matthew struck the U.S. Southeast and triggered widespread flooding in the state. Operations will get back to normal […]

Millions of chickens reported dead in Hurricane Matthew floods

Oct. 12, 2016 at 8:09 pm CDT

By Tom Polansek

Floods cause deaths, block food aid in drought-hit Ethiopia

Apr. 26, 2016 at 7:05 pm CDT

By Katy Migiro

Argentina declares flood emergency in six key farm provinces

Feb. 19, 2016 at 2:59 pm CST

By Hugh Bronstein

Ardent’s Illinois flour mills reopened

Jan. 22, 2016 at 11:05 am CST

By Reuters

Barge accidents rise on flood-swollen Mississippi River

Jan. 15, 2016 at 4:35 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters –– The U.S. Coast Guard temporarily halted shipping traffic on the Mississippi River in New Orleans on Friday after a tow boat struck stationary barges in a fleeting area, marking at least the fifth barge accident this week on the flood-swollen river. High water has severely restricted […]

By Karl Plume

U.S. grain prices soar as floods shut waterways, threaten crops

Dec. 31, 2015 at 12:29 am CST

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. grain farmers scrambled to find shelter for their crops and handlers hunted for alternative transportation routes, as widespread floods shut waterways from Illinois to Missouri and spurred a surge in physical prices of corn and soybeans. The sudden jump in prices could complicate a months-long […]

By Michael Hirtzer P.J. Huffstutter

Flooding in U.S. Midwest threatens winter wheat

Dec. 29, 2015 at 12:49 am CST

Chicago | Reuters — Heavy weekend storms caused flooding in parts of the southern U.S. Midwest, threatening the region’s soft red winter wheat, crop experts said on Monday. A swath of eastern Texas, Arkansas, Missouri and southern Illinois received 7.5 to 18 cm of rain with localized totals of up […]

By Julie Ingwersen

Private wells added to Sask. flood protection program

Apr. 9, 2015 at 10:24 am CDT

A provincial program covering Saskatchewan residents’ costs to put up emergency, permanent flood protection has been expanded to include projects to protect private wells. The province’s Emergency Flood Damage Reduction Program (EFDRP) is offered to communities, rural municipalities, businesses, non-profit organizations, individual farm and country residences and cottages facing “imminent […]

By Staff

Prairie farmers eye early start to seeding

Mar. 23, 2015 at 8:20 pm CDT

Winnipeg | Reuters –– Western Canadian farmers, some of whom could not plant crops last year due to soggy soil, may be able to get a head-start on sowing their fields this spring. Canada is the world’s biggest canola exporter and the second largest wheat exporter, but its flat western […]

By Rod Nickel

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