National Ag News
WX experts predict flooding for 1/3 of the country
Weather experts are predicting flooding for one-third of the
country this spring which means planting delays are likely again this year.
USDA meteorologist Brad Rippey says overall flooding is not
expected to be as severe or long lasting as 2019, but a large swath of farm
country faces flooding over the next few months, “From the eastern Plains, all
the way eastward across the Mississippi Valley into the Corn Belt and also into
the southeast.”
Ground is already saturated in many areas and on top of
that, an active storm track is forecast across the Corn Belt, “Even though we
don’t expect flooding perhaps to be quite as widespread as what we saw last
year, there are certainly indications that we will once again see potentially
extensive planting delays in the Corn Belt again.”
Some areas are already flooding.
