Officials of the American Farm Bureau Federation said that crop damage from recent weather events will cost Iowans around $4 billion. Corn yields could see a reduction as much as 16%, with 1.5 to 2 million acres of corn and soybeans that likely won’t be replanted. Iowa was hit hardest by recent rainfall [...]
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Iowa Crop Damage Estimated at $4 billion
June 26th, 2008 · No Comments
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Gov. Culver declares 28 more counties as disaster areas
June 13th, 2008 · No Comments
Late last night, Gov. Culver added the counties of Adair, Appanoose, Audobon, Cass, Clinton, Davis, Decature, Des Moines, Greene, Grundy, Guthrie, Henry, Jackson, Jefferson, Keokuk, Lee, Louisa, Lucas, Madison, Mahaska, Mills, Monroe, Pottawattamie, Poweshiek, Shelby, Washington, Wayne, and Winnebago to the disaster list. That brings the current total up to 83 counties in Iowa. [...]
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Has a whole state ever been declared a disaster area?
June 12th, 2008 · No Comments
This is the current list of counties that have been declared disaster areas. In all, 55 of the 99 Iowa counties are on the list. How Grundy County didn’t make the cut, I don’t know.
Correction: An article in the Quad City Times states that Gov. Culver declared all 99 counties as disaster areas [...]
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Enough is Enough
June 11th, 2008 · No Comments
What’s up with the weather around here? Nice one day, crap the next. If you don’t like the weather in Iowa, wait five minutes and it’ll change.
And what’s with all the thunderstorms? I’d like to go one week without any severe weather rolling through. At the moment, we’re currently under a [...]
Reprieve from Rain
June 9th, 2008 · No Comments
Finally, after about a week solid of daily rain/thunderstorms, it looks like we’re going to get a break. Maybe it’s time to get back outside and get some fresh air. I’m sure my bike is building up spiderwebs and the situation on the roller blades isn’t much better.
Not much is new on the [...]
