Flooding Close to Home

This last couple weeks of heavy rains in the Midwest is doing a job on small and large farming operations. Looks like hundreds of thousands of acres are under water.

And the livestock? I haven’t heard much about the toll on that front yet.

But in Iowa alone, an estimated 20 percent of the grain crop has been lost to flooding, according to the Wallaces Farmer.

This video, made dramatic if you turn on the music, shows flooding in the iFarmer’s hometown caused in large part by an overflowing dam.

This flood wiped out all of our friend’s specialty chicken houses. He was able to actually recover most of the houses, but not the birds.

So he has to start from scratch with the painstaking process of re-creating the blood lines.