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Staggering losses (access required)

by Wally Northway

Published: November 9,2009

Tags: agriculture, crop damage, flooded field, mississippi farmers, soybeans

Crop damage estimated at nearly $500M John Anderson looked out his car window and surveyed yet another flooded field of soybeans. An agriculture economist at Mississippi State University, Anderson knows well the current crop loss estimates — in late October, he and colleague Dr. John Michael Riley figured it at approximately $371 million, or 23 percent. ...


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