‘Completely Catastrophic’: Flooding And Tariffs Causing Chaos For Farmers – NPR

‘Completely Catastrophic’: Flooding And Tariffs Causing Chaos For Farmers  NPR

Standing next to his red mud-splattered pickup in Central Arkansas, a tired Robert Stobaugh watches an osprey soar over a field of flooded rice. If anything can survive flooding, he says, it’s rice. “But even rice doesn’t like this,” he says, looking at the swamp of rust-brown water in front of him. The fields around Stobaugh’s truck are usually planted with soybeans, corn and rice. This year, most of them still haven’t been seeded, due to weeks of heavy rain. Of the fields that have, Stobaugh says, many look like the field in front of him, swallowed by the surging Arkansas River. The ospre…

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