I do not fit into any category to be financially assisted even though we had quite some damage, not from flood, but from too much rain which washed out some of our spring crops, and damaged others. Tomatoes for example are good only where they sat on higher ground or in berms. They do not like too much water around their roots, and when flash droughts occur, like we also had them this year, their root system is not developed enough to search for water lower in the ground. Therefore about 40% of the almost 1000 tomatoes I planted will either have low or no yield. But everything is still better than being flooded like so many farms in the river basins. On RFD-TV I heard one farmer say that 2019 will be remembered just like 1980 - a bad year.
Extreme weather is certainly happening more frequently now and we all will have to adjust and adapt our methods. Maybe rivers also need more room instead of being dammed up so much that when big water comes they have no other way than to go over the levees.


4 years ago via Forums | Front Porch Forum

May keep them alive but insurance won’t make much money.


4 years ago via Forums | Front Porch Forum