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20 Mar 2019
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- Roger Ideker's farm near St. Joseph, Missouri, was under water in 2011 from June until September. For years he fought the federal government, specifically the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, who he blamed for his flooded bottom land near the Missouri River. In 2018, a court finally ruled that the Corp...
20 Mar 2019
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor OMAHA (DTN) -- Iowa attorney Joe Peiffer spent the latter half of February helping some of his clients try to restructure debt and get operating loans for 2019 after these farmers found out their past lenders weren't going to continue financing them. "Right now, we're having many people find out shortly before t...
19 Mar 2019
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor GLENWOOD, Iowa (DTN) -- Exasperated local officials told Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds on Monday about lost farms and businesses due to flooding, ongoing river breaches, the need for higher levees and their concern about a lack of information from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Flooding over the weekend in the Misso...
19 Mar 2019
By Mary KennedyDTN Cash Grains Analyst While the Upper Mississippi River (UMR) remains in winter hibernation, the rest of the river system is overflowing with excess water from snowmelt and recent rains. The flooding is preventing barges from moving grain and fertilizer for spring planting. The UMR will not see its first barge until the ice on Lak...
19 Mar 2019
By Charles Johnson Progressive Farmer Contributing Editor Conserve soil, conserve water. Both go hand-in-hand on Steve Stevens' farm, near Tillar, Arkansas. A third-generation farmer on land that's 10 miles from the Mississippi River and 2 miles from the Arkansas River, Stevens has seen plenty of changes during his time here, and not all for the be...