U.S. crop damage from weather tops $8 billion

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Source: Reuters

CHICAGO (Reuters) - The largest farm group in the United States said on Wednesday that weather-related damage to the country's crops, including recent floods in the Midwest, has topped $8 billion so far this year.

The American Farm Bureau Federation said leading farm state Iowa accounted for about half of the damage, which ranged from excessive rains and flooding in Illinois to drought in California.

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AFBF said this would result in an estimated loss of $4 billion to Iowa's crops, and that other states taking a hit from excessive wet weather and flooding are Illinois with $1.3 billion, Missouri $900 million, Indiana $500 million and Nebraska $500 million.

It said an additional $1 billion in losses were expected in other states where conditions remained wet.

The group said some states were experiencing dry weather, with drought taking a toll in several Western and Southeastern states. It said northern California battled the driest spring in its history, and as a whole the state suffered $500 million in estimated damage.

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1. If the OIL and GAS co's can build pipelines for their products...then there should surely be....

...a way to build pipelines that divert flooded areas to the desert and drought prone areas. :think: