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Flooding from last year still has farmers playing catch-up

Iowa farmer Brent Hayes looks out over 1,700 acres of winter wheat he planted last October on flood-damaged land near the Missouri River. The foot-high crop was used to help replenish the soil for corn.
Rick Fredericksen
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Iowa Public Radio
Iowa farmer Brent Hayes looks out over 1,700 acres of winter wheat he planted last October on flood-damaged land near the Missouri River. The foot-high crop was used to help replenish the soil for corn.

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Last fall, officials predicted that farmland along the Missouri River in Nebraska, Iowa, Missouri and Kansas might be out of production for at least a year. The flood of 2011 piled up sand dunes, gouged out deep holes, and killed off many of the microbes that help crops grow. But now it’s spring, and farmers are back on the land, trying to fix what nature broke. Rick Fredericksen, reporting for Harvest Public Media, discovered a most unusual planting season down by the river.

Ryan served as the KBIA News Director from February 2011 to September 2023
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